Wanderin'

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Ron Chamberlin

I just made a response to a post in this group, and being a bit light
hearted tonight (not enough coffee), wrote:
"Heck, thanks to all of you who keep wandering on back to here!"

As I did so, it hit me that I wasn't being too original. A song lyric came
back to me (dating myself too), and off I went Googling to check the lyric.

Yes, I did find the line. It's from Deep Purple by Nino Temple and April
Stevens "Through the mist of a memory you wander back to me."

Now you ask why I post this. I do so as a lesson in protecting yourself out
here on the Net.

One way that I searched, the very first link on the first page caused my
Panda AV to snap to attention with a block on an attempted d/l and execution
of "Trojan. Downloader.MO."

I went to search another way, and about 5 minutes later, clicked on a link
and MWAS sprang to life from the background and put a choke hold on an
Active X control that was trying to come downstream.

Two hits in 5 minutes for just looking for song lyrics. Sheesh! No damage
rec'd or done, but that was because my machine is fully updated, and I run a
current, up to date AV program, and I run MWAS in the systray. Moral:
Let's be careful out there!

May I suggest going to http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/default.mspx
for best practices?

Ron Chamberlin
MS-MVP
 
That's exactly how one of the more infested machines I ever cleaned
manually--before Microsoft Antispyware was available--got infected. And it
was why I was worried about my 9 year old daughter looking up beatles lyrics
on the Internet with my laptop the other evening.

That site has been out there doing its thing for a good long time. It'd be
nice to figure out how to put some pressure on them to reform.
 
I have noticed that many of the lyrics websites are bustling with malware.
SpywareBlaster stops most of it from even trying to launch on my machine.

JohnF.
 
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