They Bought out a good AV company and SCREWED it into the ground.

Its a wonder, that many of us have come to know..That MS, installed the backdoors, so they could install/show Advertising. and the key to do it would cost you $99 per year. AND THINK hackers would figure it out.

get a good hosts file if you haven’t
already…the Ad servers are being exploited big time..plus a lot of dns spoofing going on to..

(and make sure no file sharing or administrative shares are active in your system)

-s

IMO.. the vista/windows7 file managers are the most annoying navigators yet.

-anyway, enjoy!

http://youtube.co/watch?v=Agx7tpISsMY&feature=related

-s

Meanwhile, in Reality, -what this baseless accusation really is, is yet another an attempt at a FEAR campaign (by a very desperate [lunatic fringe] White House cabinet) to keep the few dumbed down, blind and ignorant masses left from ever figuring out who’s propaganda is the truth. [/sarcasm]

(-should they ever wake up.)

Anyone in the field doing house calls or on-site malware/virus removal knows the primary surfing vector for malware, spyware and trojans is *ADVERTISEMENT SERVERS* -especially *name brand* severs like doubleclick.net that push infected Banner Ads and Scam product sites (like the plague of teeth whitener websites of late)

The best part of this [perfectly timed] BS story from the senate is that a nasty rash of trojans, malware and root-kits erupted in the wild a few weeks ago in mid-February, –do in part, to a bugged patch Microsoft pushed out to it’s loyal customers. -how convenient. In fact, in February, a major Adobe flash bug was also discovered that allows the attacker to operate your web-cam and other fun stuff. A new “Fake Alert” false anti-malware prgm hit the wire.., -a real nasty [new] flavour of the ZBot bot-net trojan also hit the wire.. [it focuses on stealing your banking data..]

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Timing is everything…and like Rhammi said.. “never let a good crisis go to waste”. This will be the new method of stifling the truth, free speech and those who are at odds with pelosi and co. (and the whitehouse) -More state sponsored BS..

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#13 & #14..good call.

-as for the tech fix.. More than anything: MAINTAIN A GOOD HOSTS FILE!!!! -this will cut down your chances of infection by a good 70%-80%

The [long legged?] Mac-Daddy of well maintained HOSTS files with a focus on well-known malware sites can be found at: hpHosts’s site. -at 3mb+ this files blocks some 120k+ [*thousand*] known domains that are “not good” for your PC’s health.

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MVPS.org maintains a decent hosts file with a bias towards advert and tracking servers, as well as malware domains. -it is much smaller at around 650kb and 25k+ domains, with the added benefit of being well commented and having a decent tutorial on all things HOSTS.

(smaller file is also less apt to affect performance on low memory machines)

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BTW, those on dial-up or low, low bandwidth should definitely put google’s google-analytics domains in their hosts file. You will see a decent increase in your surfing speeds as almost every website under the sun uses google’s free web site traffic analysis service. -add these three to your hosts file.

ssl.google-analytics.com
google-analytics.com
http://www.google-analytics.com

-lastly… SURF as a limited user, or in a VM, or something like Sandboxie, or as mentioned above, check out Ubuntu. Vista users/lovers should check out Kbuntu. -looks just like Vista only way better. (has widget madness too)

all the latest Linux distros are now sporting some drop dead gorgeous, Aero-like graphic desktops that are lightening fast.

Graphic editors and small companies should seriously check’em out..it’s like having all the glitz and ease of use of a Mac, combined with the tweak-ability of a custom PC, only you don’t have to worry about the bloody copyright police or licensing fees. they are 3D accelerated as well..

go to http://distrowatch.com/ to see the Linux/BSD madness.. (over 2000 distros)

-free.

I guarantee…with this new “fee based” model GovCorp is foisting on us all, people will start to run to Linux based distros in droves. heck, you can install your favorite distro on a USB stick and take your whole “PC” with you were ever you go. it will boot off any box with a USB port..

yada yada…

i’m beat….good night..

-s

I tend to like CHEAP and simple sites with FEW bells and whistles. And finding them is getting hard.
The only way to SEE this happening tends to be NoScript, which does 1 thing I love. Blocks 3rd party scripts..Scripts NOT from the site Im on.

Then again, maybe the leftists are fishing for a way to shut down drudgereport with a phony claim of malware. I’m sure they would get sympathetic ears from this administration. Especially now, to stop the bad news on Rahm.