Using a computer is getting to be like wandering around in the crappiest neighborhood in your city, at 3 am on the darkest night of the month.
fyi
Perhaps if doubleclick was subjected to a lawsuit by one or more victims, it would pay more attention to what it allows to be sent out.
bkm
At least here on FR we are safe, but there are probably a thousand links per day posted here, a minefield within you might say.
I have ad block plus, but from the brief summary in this article, it sounds as though it may be useless against this beast.
NoScript and AdBlock are your friends.
Just run your browser in a sandbox.
Another benefit from Host Manager; besides not having to see the stupid ads it also protects me from the malware in them.
Highly recommend a host manager to anyone who uses the internet!
The best thing people can do is run Linux, and from WITHIN Linux, run a Windows 7 Virtual machine. Create a snapshot of the ‘pristine’ Windows VM after it’s fully updated, and use it with IE for the internet, and any proprietary apps that might be needed. Save any data that you want to keep from Windows to a network share on your primary Linux machine, or a NAS(a USB drive would also work). At the end of every Internet session on the Windows VM, revert it to the pristine snapshot you created. If you got anything nasty, it will get wiped out by your snapshot. For those that may not understand, this is equivalent to reformatting your hard drive and reinstalling a fully updated Windows OS every time you use the internet, but it only takes seconds.
That should keep most anyone safe and free from malware, while still being able to use Windows, if necessary. There is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON to ‘dual boot’ anymore, as many people did for years in the past.
I am going to take a moment to complain about all the stupid images we have to look at while reading original sources on 1/2 the threads here on FR. Must be blogs but some are actual websites. Totally nauseating.
I’m impressed with the discussion in this thread. No idiots saying use a Mac or Linux they can’t be infected with malware. Looks like people are wising up to the issues that malware writers and a ignorant users combing make for issues on all platforms.