Posted on 03/05/2014 12:16:51 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER
It’s a sad day for the Internet… according to Trend Micro’s security analysts, it’s been discovered that photographs of both sunsets and — even more heartbreaking — cats being shared across the web contain malware capable of getting into your bank accounts.
(Excerpt) Read more at petapixel.com ...
anyone know if this will work on a mac?
I usually get a screen notice that it isn’t one of my preferred sites, and I have to key in my password to download and install something.
Up until about a year ago, my wife actively resisted my efforts to set up her computer with NoScript and some other anti-malware protections because they "irritated her" while she was surfin de net.
And anyways, she insisted, she only went to sites she knew about, never any of those "questionable sites".
I figured it was only a matter of time .....
Then one day she came into my Man Cave, looking a little shaken and asked me to come look quickly at her computer ...
She had been looking at other member posted pictures on one of her Crafting/Quilting/knitting forum sites when all of a sudden her screen went all "Major Alarm" flashing and locked up, stating that she had been caught visiting a Child Porn site, but that for $300 they would unlock her computer and not report her criminal activity to the FBI!
What a bunch of sleazeballs to accuse someone of viewing Child Porn.
She obviously was not in the mood for any "Honey, I told you we needed to get some protections on your computer" feedback right then, so I followed the Husband's Handbook, Chapter 1, paragraph 4.4a on this one.
I assured her that it was all nonsense, that she hadn't done anything wrong, and that it was just an attempt by sleazeballs to get a credit card number and some cash.
Then I showed her that her computer could be rebooted in safe mode, restored to a restore point a few days back, and all that crap was gone.
Then, I gently suggested that we put in some protections for her while explaining that somebody had inserted a script to run on the picture she had clicked on.
Then I showed her that with NoScript, the same picture browsing would alert her to the buried script and would allow her to select "don't allow script to run".
I had her go back to the picture she was browsing to show her that it still had the script buried in in, as that was the best way to make her understand that with appropriate precautions, she didn't have to give up surfing the web -- which was her initial reaction to this incident.
She now has NoScript, Ghostery, SuperMalwarebytes, and a couple of other anti-malware programs active on her computer, and has never had a problem since.
She also got in the habit of regularly running her anti-malware programs and the disk-defragmenter software I put on her machine.
Sometime the "big scare" is one of life's best learning scenarios.
I also had her notify the web-master and the forum about the scam. Hopefully someone else learned from her experience as well, and hopefully the web-master upgraded his/her security procedures to better protect the forum members.
lol!
Good one!
No, its one of the Viking kitties, hunting for trolls....
Damn. CNET was my go to. I guess not anymore.
Relevant (sorta) to your interests, my FRiend.
Loving everyone’s images, funny stuff!
It's NOT the cats...
After exhaustive research, we've concluded that those malware images of cats originated at the American Kennel Club! It's the DOGS!!!
Mark
Leave the kitties alone!!!
I believe that Sophos has a free AV package for home users of MACs.
While I haven’t used Sophos in a couple of years, and never on a MAC, it was the BEST solution for Novell network server protection, FAR better than anything that Symantec or McAfee had.
Mark
And I thought I was so careful. Look out it is coming from everywhere!
Thank you very much!
XOXOXO
;-{)
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