Followup to last week's trojan brouhaha: The same "offer" of a Flash update came up today--but this time I remembered that Adobe doesn't offer updates that way (as unexpected browser pages) and, about the same time, Malwarebytes blocked three attempted downloads. I think I'll keep Malwarebytes running...
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I'm pretty sure the malicious code was in an OA journal site, both times--this time, if I'm right, one from Eastern Europe--an .sk domain. (Slovakia, but I could be wrong about which journal it was.)
- walt crawford
Oh, and I figured out *why* the Trojan was doing something seemingly stupid--slowing down the browser and displaying fixed ads. Namely, two of the ads were always warnings that I had outdated DLLs or that something was wrong with Windows, naturally offering to fix it.
- walt crawford
If I had clicked on any of them, I'm sure I would have gotten *serious* malware--but, y'know, Microsoft doesn't alert you to outdated DLLs with flashing multicolored boxes, in my experience.
- walt crawford