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[robinb]

what kind of sites can give you this trojan?
I want to give my clients examples of where NOT to go or what to NOT click on.

Thanks
robin

[JeanInMontana]

Hi robinb and welcome to Malwarbytes. A list of where not to go is impossible, better to install prevention tools, SpywareBlaster, SiteHound, SiteAdvisor, hpHosts, Spybot Search & Destroy and use the immunize feature. Those programs and host file all use site blocking or warnings about bad sites to help and hpHosts targets more rogues than others IMO.

Common sense is huge, don't believe the popup telling you program x is needed. Or a certain codec. Stay off the pr0n, free game, poker and torrent sites. No P2P period or cracks, warez, keygens.

[robinb]

JeanInMontana, on Nov 14 2008, 05:32 PM, said:

Hi robinb and welcome to Malwarbytes. A list of where not to go is impossible, better to install prevention tools, SpywareBlaster, SiteHound, SiteAdvisor, hpHosts, Spybot Search & Destroy and use the immunize feature. Those programs and host file all use site blocking or warnings about bad sites to help and hpHosts targets more rogues than others IMO.

Common sense is huge, don't believe the popup telling you program x is needed. Or a certain codec. Stay off the pr0n, free game, poker and torrent sites. No P2P period or cracks, warez, keygens.

Kinda felt those were the places- just wanted to make sure.
and thanks for the welcome.
robin

[AdvancedSetup]

JeanInMontana, on Nov 14 2008, 02:32 PM, said:

Stay off the pr0n, free game, poker and torrent sites. No P2P period or cracks, warez, keygens.

Well if you stayed off of all those sites you'd shut down probably half of the Internet.

[JeanInMontana]

Yeah and we would have nothing but real life to do.

[robinb]

AdvancedSetup, on Nov 14 2008, 08:04 PM, said:

Well if you stayed off of all those sites you'd shut down probably half of the Internet.

Maybe that would actually be a good thing
But then again I would be out of business
robin

[exile360]

robinb, on Nov 15 2008, 07:54 AM, said:

Maybe that would actually be a good thing
But then again I would be out of business
robin

Nah, if those sites became unpopular they'd just find out what sites/types of sites were popular and bombard them with malware. Heck, years back when people first started to get hit by it (I think it was like 2003), my brother's PC got hit by the Sasser worm from MSN.com which was his homepage as he was on MSN dialup at the time, and of course MSN is one of Microsoft's own sites. As long as there are vulnerabilities there will be malware and as long as there is communication of any kind between computers there will be exploitable vulnerabilities. Being proactive about protecting yourself simply shrinks the size of your computer as a potential target.

[JeanInMontana]

exile360, on Nov 15 2008, 10:50 AM, said:

Nah, if those sites became unpopular they'd just find out what sites/types of sites were popular and bombard them with malware. Heck, years back when people first started to get hit by it (I think it was like 2003), my brother's PC got hit by the Sasser worm from MSN.com which was his homepage as he was on MSN dialup at the time, and of course MSN is one of Microsoft's own sites. As long as there are vulnerabilities there will be malware and as long as there is communication of any kind between computers there will be exploitable vulnerabilities. Being proactive about protecting yourself simply shrinks the size of your computer as a potential target.

Sasser was spread by email not websites. Your brother clicked a link or opened an attachment.