You can guess how much the following pains me to admit, but my main tower was out of commission for more than a day due to virus crap. I’ve been dying the death of a thousand cuts lately so one more wound was one step closer to me beating my head against the desk until my brain came out my ears. Thankfully my parents figured out that I could use a hand and so my Mom helped me by asking my Dad to take care of Zafi.B and other assorted crap that ended up on my system. This was totally huge since it let me focus on more pressing matters and I even managed to snag some time and go for a run yesterday to blow off some stress.
The worst part is that I don’t even know what was to blame for the infection in the first place ;_;
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I’m rarely able to track down the origin point for most of this stuff when removing it, although sometimes I’ll luck out and be able to cross-reference the date and time of the infection with Firefox activity that correlates with it.
And Jenn, don’t think twice about calling or emailing anytime if this kinda stuff happens.
There’s been a surge in banner advertisements being the vector for malware attacks. I have a friend who, despite actually running an anti-virus program, managed to catch AntiVirus2009 ( http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2008-082521-2037-99 ) from an ad on CNN.com The webcomic host Keenspot just had problems in December with an ad stream on their forums spreading some form of malware, which I think was the final straw for someone who at one point was their chief technical officer getting his comic hosted elsewhere.
Personally, I’ve been using Firefox, NoScript ( http://noscript.net/ ) and ImgLikeOpera ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1672 ) set to “load images from this site only” on a Windows XP box behind a router, and that’s it. On the one hand, I’m not giving ad revenue to the sites that I visit (or even the ones which I like) unless the ads are hosted by that site. On the other hand, I haven’t been infected despite a total lack of anti-virus and anti-spyware software, even when I found a Google search which was hijacked towards an infection site.
Yes I use Firefox and no script also. And theres another addon that I’ve been using also called adblock plus, works great.
Am also behind a router, and am using eset nod 32 and windows defender. Seems like a great combination so far without anything bogging down the system.
There was another security patch yesterday so don’t forget about those…
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