lots of malware popping up this week
- get your windows critical updates immediately and then run freeware www.malwarebytes.com
also see this: new free microsoft cleaner just out...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/29/ms_security_essentials/
Maybe I'm paranoid, but the malware that attacked my system seems to have a pro-Obama political agenda!
I run Vista64, Explorer and McAfee behind a router all fully up-to-date. I have been attacked five times when opening naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com (NBC.com), while each time I had recently opened FR, BBC, Yahoomail, RealClearPolitics and other sites. Only Leo's site produces the attack.
The malware attack falsely claims to be a McAfee SiteAdvisor alarm by opening a window stating that, yet when I go to my official McAfee site, NBC.com shows as clean with no complaints, such as one might expect Obots to post there.
The malware somehow penetrates past McAfee and Windows protection and corrupts my config.sys file (report from windows repair) thus instantly hanging my system and then preventing even a reboot without running repair on reboot. Even repair has failed the first several times!
If you or anyone knows what sort of specific malware I should suspect and how to further protect myself beyond your excellent suggestions, I would appreciate it!