Posted on 05/21/2011 3:47:27 PM PDT by matt1
I visited Orly Taitz' website yesterday to catch up on any news re the various court proceedings she is involved in and immediately a pop-up appeared asking if I wanted to run a script. I closed the browser without responding. Thereafter, everything on my desktop disappeared, the Task Manager was disabled and many important applications were wiped out. This was on my work computer and I had to get an IT guy to look at the PC. It took nearly 4 hours to restore everything. The IT guy said that if it was a personal computer, the machine would have been almost destroyed.
The most probable culprit is democrat operatives who DO NOT want the public learning about Ms. Taitz and the serious fraud allegations she is making about obama.
I just wanted to post this so that others from FR will be careful when visiting her website. Hopefully, Ms. Taitz will do the necessary to protect her site and its visitors but for now I won't be able to visit her site until a remedy is in place.
What was the name of the virus/worm/trojan/malware?
The most common attack vector today is from reputable websites. They compromise legitimate websites and infect trusting users.
If you didn’t give permission for something to run, then there is a much larger issue going on than a simple script imbeded in a web page.
I assume you are running some version of Windows...? What browser?
I just went there. No pop up and no suspicious script asking to run, at least on her homepage.
You mods have some pretty good virus/malware indicators. You got any idea of this?
I’ve heard for a long time her site was infected with all kinds of bugs. I never go there because of this, and never will.
The folks who wrote the virus for Orly’s web site are stupid.
You don’t expose yourself right away. You wait awhile, then do it. Makes it almost impossible to figure out which web site installed the virus.
Does your company have an policy regarding Internet use at work? It should, and if it does, visiting non-work related sites may be violating the policy. Be careful. Your computer usage may be logged.
Even more likely - the malware purveyors who “camp out” similar domain names (with a single letter/space/etc. out of place or altered).
Maybe the lefty IT guy is teaching you a lesson.
I heard that if you curse Google, you get a virus that makes your computer send in votes for Obama.
I’ve never been to Orly’s website.
I guess the question I should be asking is if the mods detect anything if someone posts a link to her site.
Does it ever! Frustrating to not be able to get at what you need and know to be alright because of some knucklehead with the third party service they use for blocking.
I take my personal laptop (either Mac or PC, depending on what I am working on) and an unlimited 4G device and run a better class of "anti-ware" than the company will pay for. Also works for my iPad from a long distance in the building for those meetings that can be so annoying.
the company i work for is quite liberal about internet use, as long as it’s not porn or some other inappropriate material.
the environment is well-protected with various virus protections including a Cisco agent and of course a fortified firewall. the IT guy ran a complete virus scan and was unable to locate it at first. he said it could have been masquerading as another application. we eventually located an application called something like a profile cleaner which apparently destroyed the user profile.
i KNOW it was from orly’s site because i only had the google homepage open at the time, then navigated to orly’s site and that’s when stuff started disappearing.
the IT guy was able to restore a new profile and then the PC went back to normal.
They do that as well but no legitimate website are hacked and used to take spread malware.
Its happened at Drudge, walmart and foxnews to name a few.
>The IT guy said that if it was a personal computer, the machine would have been almost destroyed. <
BS. (Not to you, but your ‘IT’ guy or whatever he called himself)
In a previous life, I was employed as a consultant for a well-known AV company in L.A. and have seen and witnessed almost every known malware known to “shut down” Mac and Windows systems. You can also catch me on the Avast forums as an ‘evangelist”. What was the name of this splendid malware because if he completely re-booted the system and cleaned out the hard drive, he’s not certified to fix stuff because there are procedures on how to neutralize the culprit without even resorting to such draconian measures. Not even once did any of our staff surrender any PC because any machine is worth saving due to the information in the hard drive.
“I just wanted to post this so that others from FR will be careful when visiting her website.”
Welcome to Free Republic.
When posting a “concern” it is best not to appear to be using “concern troll” reverse psychology giving the appearance of pushing FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) at FReepers who may want to go to Orly's site.
Orly's site has been under constant attack and she claims it is well protected. There has been a concerted effort to claim that her site is virus infested to discourage visits there, which has worked to a certain extent even now. You have also failed to provide any useful information which could be of help to others in assessing their own vulnerability, such as you operating system, AV program and firewall...
Thanks.
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