I have people all the time ask me how do I keep getting infected with trojans, Rootkits and viruses on their computers.
On Windows machines, some malware comes from drive-by downloads. You visit a website, you get infected by a piece of script that triggers a buffer overflow that allows the malware to install. All done in a few seconds. Most of these drive by downloads could all be avoided if people would listen and install Open DNS. It would never let you get to that bad website to start with. Most people pay me no attention and of course I keep on taking their money repairing those infected computers. I only tell them where I will have time to play more golf .lol
If you keep your system fully patched, you are almost assured you will not be that victim. Meaning update all your software like Java, Adobe and flash players.
If you make a mistake and type the incorrect web address you can be had quick. Also when searching using a search engine like google pay close attention on how long this site has been uploaded. I have seen some that my webroot tells me is a safe site and then I look closer and it shows that site was uploaded 10 minutes ago. Thats the one you have to watch out for.
The number of drive-by installations is small. So how does the majority of malware get on a PC. Most attacks today succeed by convincing the victim to do the actual work meaning the person using the PC thinks the warning is legit. Tip of the day
On Windows machines, some malware comes from drive-by downloads. You visit a website, you get infected by a piece of script that triggers a buffer overflow that allows the malware to install. All done in a few seconds. Most of these drive by downloads could all be avoided if people would listen and install Open DNS. It would never let you get to that bad website to start with. Most people pay me no attention and of course I keep on taking their money repairing those infected computers. I only tell them where I will have time to play more golf .lol
If you keep your system fully patched, you are almost assured you will not be that victim. Meaning update all your software like Java, Adobe and flash players.
If you make a mistake and type the incorrect web address you can be had quick. Also when searching using a search engine like google pay close attention on how long this site has been uploaded. I have seen some that my webroot tells me is a safe site and then I look closer and it shows that site was uploaded 10 minutes ago. Thats the one you have to watch out for.
The number of drive-by installations is small. So how does the majority of malware get on a PC. Most attacks today succeed by convincing the victim to do the actual work meaning the person using the PC thinks the warning is legit. Tip of the day
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