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To: Yardstick
Is it likely my machine got infected and if so what would the effects be?

To begin with you may want to make backups of all your important data files. Recently had to format my web browsing computer twice. First time I got hit on the same weekend South Korea was attacked. I was simply downloading a large file from the MegaDownload site. The second time some malware came through one of my online 3rd party applications. That was an attack on our 3rd party application that was hosted on a server in Slovakia. We were running an application written by a Spanish company. So we were vulnerable and may be a canary in a cold mine for other sites hosted on the hopefully better protected US servers. All seven of my websites are now hosted on US servers now and we don't run any foreign written php programs anymore. If you allow users to upload files you are very vulnerable. Personally I think China and Russia should be completely disconnected from the web.

Thanks for posting that site that will block them through a third party domain.

39 posted on 08/09/2009 5:16:00 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: justa-hairyape

Very interesting. So given the nature of the malware at Orly’s site, would it have been possible to have gotten infected just by viewing the page in my browser? Or would it have required doing something more, like opening a link or downloading an image from there or something?


40 posted on 08/09/2009 6:11:06 PM PDT by Yardstick
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