There is a Trojan.Downloader.exe that is infecting computers. I got hit (not on Drudge, but on a professional web-site) a month ago. It got into my Windows registry and hijacked me to a proxy site. Then I got a bunch of fake Microsoft ads telling me I was infected and needed to buy their anti-virus program for 79.95.
I called an expert and spent $400 fixing the computer. He told me that a week earlier one of his clients said she thought everything was OK because she bought that software several times.
I now use Kaspersky, deactivated my Windows firewall, and dumped Norton. Everything works and the trojan horse was blocked last time I visited the infected site.
I had iron clad security on all my computers BUT my daughter took a thumb drive to school to get some of her writing materials stored on her school computer which then infected all of our computers via our home network when she brought the thumb drive home.
luckily I had backed up All our most vital files a week before on a couple of external HDs which were not connected to the system at the time she infected our network with the thumb drive.
I did the re installs myself so it wasn't any real monetary cost just lots of lost man hours.