Posted on 10/27/2014 7:20:39 AM PDT by oldbrowser
I was just reading the Michelle Malkin Newsletter. When I started to view the Kay Hagan video accusing her opponent of being responsible for the Trayvon Martin death if got a nasty virus on my computer.
Obola!
Big brother and big government at work.
RAT desperation!
The most dangerous words on the Internet ... “click here”
Hope you got rid of it. That sucks.
Could be through the video but likely came from the Ads displayed.
I would install Ghostery on your browsers. Not foolproof, but keeps most of the questionable ads down. There will be some pages you may not be able to view (I can’t see examiner.com) but can live without seeing their 16 ads. You’d be shocked to see the number of trackers, etc. are on some of the “trusted” pages.
RE: Michelle Malkin newsletter has a virus attached to it.
I hope it’s not the Obola virus :)
Two things you should do. Always have the latest update to flash installed. Also, disable Java ( not Javascript) in your browser if you don’t need it.
As a computer developer by trade, I would question the following:
1) What do you see as ‘the virus’?
2) How do you know you have it.
3) How do you know it is on Michelle’s newsletter.
4) How do you acquire the newsletter.
please answer those four, before we can make any assumptions whatsoever.
Ads cannot easily deliver viruses. Flash ones, maybe.
I didn't get the name but it was detected by my Microsoft security essentials as a serious virus which it quarantined. I then deleted it.
At the time I was on Michelle's website. I did not have any other websites open other than my Yahoo mail account which is how I acquire the letter.
When I opened the Hagan video to see the political ad, after about ten seconds security essentials notified me that it had just quarantined the virus.
ok if you say so
Ok, this is why I asked these questions.
Based on what I have heard as your replies, you have no evidence whatsoever that MM's newsletter gave you a virus. The fact a virus monitor triggered while you were manipulating the newsletter does not even casually show a relationship. Virus protection programs can find things well after they are established on your machine.
If the virus protection had indicated that MM's newsletter contained the virus, that would be one thing. But that's not what I am hearing.
You had a virus, and you read MM's newsletter. That is all we can safely assert at this time.
Thanks for the analysis Laz. As the government always says, I was passing the info along out of an abundance of caution.
I understand. I just don’t want something to be posted that isn’t truly verified. I’d probably ask for the thread to be pulled....
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