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2007-11-29 Science & Technology

Search Google, Click to Massive Malware Attacks?

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Posted by Fred 2007-11-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 The moditorial staff has been sweeping a lot of rat droppings out of the RB holding tank lately.

But not to worry, we almost always use the hand sanitizer afterwards.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-11-29 00:05|| 2007-11-29 00:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Use slave squirrel army... or sumtin. :-)

Posted by Spike Uniter 2007-11-29 00:53|| 2007-11-29 00:53|| Front Page Top

#3 I hit this sort of crap after using a top-of-the-page volumetric recipe conversion site. These maggots need to be hauled out and shot.

Why is it that Washington cannot bring themselves to classify malware and spyware as a form of vandalism? Ever listen to your disk drive chatter like a frozen esquimaux after being hit with some keystroke software? This shortens the life of your hardware and is nothing less than flat-out vandalism. Nowhere do these phuques request your permission to install this crap and it is the equivalent of telecom "slamming" for them to serruptitiously install software on your computer without permission. Cookies are one thing but drive cycling spyware is another. After clicking on a hallmark.com electronic greeting card email, both my Word and Excel apps were corrupted. I'm faced with the delicate task of uninstalling these critical applications.

We need laws that require anyone trying to install anything more complex than a cookie to request user approval with a mandatory click-through before this shit can infest your 'puter.

Either that or impose simple torture, mayhem, disfigurement, sterilization and physical maiming for those who do this on a routine basis.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-11-29 00:55|| 2007-11-29 00:55|| Front Page Top

#4 I have a dream... malwareznicks flambeaux.

Posted by Spike Uniter 2007-11-29 01:02|| 2007-11-29 01:02|| Front Page Top

#5 I vote we give all these bastards a flying cock punch. With a hammer.

Posted by Mike N. 2007-11-29 02:12|| 2007-11-29 02:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Again, let's all give thanks to Microsoft for making the web browser based attack a reality. Before Internet Explorer, it was laughable that a computer could be infected via web browser.

Posted by gromky 2007-11-29 02:27|| 2007-11-29 02:27|| Front Page Top

#7 That is why I use FireFox, and update it regularly.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2007-11-29 03:12|| 2007-11-29 03:12|| Front Page Top

#8 Here on Guam, I've noticed that computer stations remain linked/tied to external sources despite being logged off andor rebooted. AS A FELLOW NETTER ONCE REMARKED, 'TIS "INFORMATION CONTROL OF THE SHEEPLE. THE WOT IS WAR FOR CONTROL OF SHEEP[SHEEP'S WAR]"???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-11-29 03:15|| 2007-11-29 03:15|| Front Page Top

#9 Your FELLOW NUTTER is seriously mistaken, Joe.

Posted by weresheep 2007-11-29 04:20|| http://www.twobyfour.nfo/]">[http://www.twobyfour.nfo/] 2007-11-29 04:20|| Front Page Top

#10 Firefox + Noscript, running on Ubuntu Linux...

Posted by john frum 2007-11-29 06:01|| 2007-11-29 06:01|| Front Page Top

#11 Ok, I'll run Ad-Aware and Spybot, and then clean out my cookies. Norton ran last night. Anything else I should do?

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2007-11-29 06:23|| 2007-11-29 06:23|| Front Page Top

#12 > Firefox + Noscript

I concur

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2007-11-29 06:56|| 2007-11-29 06:56|| Front Page Top

#13 many of the malicious URLs are just a jumble of characters, with China's .cn top-level domain at their ends.

This is not coincidental.

Posted by lotp 2007-11-29 07:52|| 2007-11-29 07:52|| Front Page Top

#14 Which is why Zenster's fervent wishes for DC control are doomed to be frustrated for a long while.

You can, of course, set your browser security settings very high to avoid the malware installation. Unfortunately, it will also prevent many sites from working at all for you.

Posted by lotp 2007-11-29 07:53|| 2007-11-29 07:53|| Front Page Top

#15 Here on Guam, I've noticed that computer stations remain linked/tied to external sources despite being logged off andor rebooted.

What we need to do is set up linux livecd distributions that will use a home directory on a partition on a hard drive but run everything else from the CD/DVD.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2007-11-29 09:45|| 2007-11-29 09:45|| Front Page Top

#16 many of the malicious URLs are just a jumble of characters, with China's .cn top-level domain at their ends.

lotp: This is not coincidental.

They have the Great Firewall of China, they can more or less control what their people are allowed to see, but they're just helpless little anarchists if someone goes around planting viruses in western computers...

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2007-11-29 09:49|| 2007-11-29 09:49|| Front Page Top

#17 I had to clean my disk last week too. Moral of the story - don't use Google.

Posted by Whomong Guelph4611 2007-11-29 12:21|| 2007-11-29 12:21|| Front Page Top

#18 Which is why Zenster's fervent wishes for DC control are doomed to be frustrated for a long while.

Yet one more reason why our politicians and the Chinese need to be separated using a crowbar. Much like Islam, China has so little to offer our world in comparison to the immense damage done wherever it goes. Just like the Saudis, it is only the Politburo's very selective redistribution to our politicians of the massive Western wealth being poured into their coffers that lends them any immunity. In the absence of such venal politicians, this would normally represent an intolerable interference in another countriy's political system. Without China purchasing so many Western decision-makers, more than a few militaries would be far more keen on taking down the communist Chinese.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-11-29 12:43|| 2007-11-29 12:43|| Front Page Top

#19 Simple solution: when Google's spiders crawl a site they chosulb e looking for malware as well, and ANY link that contains malware is dumped from thier database of searchable links.

Posted by OldSpook 2007-11-29 13:26|| 2007-11-29 13:26|| Front Page Top

#20 I wonder if they are hijacking the links. I had a worm some time back and when I would click on any search engine link, it would hijack me to a spider. I had to click on the cached version to get where I wanted to go.

Posted by Whomong Guelph4611 2007-11-29 13:31|| 2007-11-29 13:31|| Front Page Top

#21 Z: I hit this sort of crap after using a top-of-the-page volumetric recipe conversion site. These maggots need to be hauled out and shot.

Do you run anti-virus software? I do, and I've never had a serious problem.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2007-11-29 16:26|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2007-11-29 16:26|| Front Page Top

#22 I run Ad-Aware twice a day. My older OS is just more vulnerable to this crap. There's no justifiable reason why the average user should have to put up with predatory bullshit like this.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-11-29 18:19|| 2007-11-29 18:19|| Front Page Top

#23 Z: I run Ad-Aware twice a day.

I'm referring to Symantec's or McAfee's software. Note that you can run a virus scan (and clean) from Trend Micro's website. Just google "housecall".

Posted by Zhang Fei 2007-11-29 20:55|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2007-11-29 20:55|| Front Page Top

#24 There's no justifiable reason why the average user should have to put up with predatory bullshit like this.

That's why I use a mac.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-11-29 21:51|| 2007-11-29 21:51|| Front Page Top

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