Roger,
I don't want to beat a dead horse, especially since only one other here
believes
me, but
you misunderstood what this is. I don't know if it's just a mouse over or what,
but I was
scrolling through the pictures and a window popped up advising me that I had a
virus
and should let "them" scan my machine. After a few seconds a full screen browser
window popped up and would not let me close it. It wanted me to download their
software.
I finally got it closed hopefully before it installed anything harmful. Nothing
was caught by
my anti-virus or anti-spam software, this was all self contained. It has
happened numerous
times when visiting a PhotoBucket page. It is NOT caught by any running
protection software.
I don't really care if anyone heeds my warning or not, just relaying my
experiences.
Jim - K9DD
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger" <sub1@rogerhalstead.com>
Cc: <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] MALWARE ALERT FOR RECENT POST
>
>
>>
>>
> Rather than mall ware, or "scareware"(which does exist), it's more than
> likely what are called "false positives". Anti-spam programs are
> particularly bad on that. Again it varies with the algorithm in each
> program and definition packages but the amount of false positives I get
> both here and at the ISP due to both financial magazines, and reflectors
> runs 50 to 75% out of about 75 to 100 e-mails per day. I was losing
> enough legitimate e-mail that I had to change the settings on my
> accounts to quarantine the e-mail so I could personally check for false
> positives. Even if I take the low % of 50 that is up to 1500 false
> positives per month. One cost me over $20,000 USD because of a lost
> business opportunity with no recourse.
> Almost all pages drop cookies on your machines. Most are benign, they
> are necessary for many operations, but it depends on what they do with
> the information. The cookie is nothing more than a text file that says
> "you were here" or "you were here and did this or that", and some such
> as "double-click work on many sites giving them the ability to track
> your browsing habits and it's almost impossible to get away from them as
> some sites will not load if you block their adds. News and some of the
> major sites do this.
>
> As many adds are not actually on the site you are visiting, the
> monitoring programs see them as a redirect. Browsers and other programs
> can block these and often misidentify them as mallware or worse.
> I'm guessing that only some are seeing mall ware being identified, it is
> likely to be the browser, but what ever identifies it should tell you
> which one found it. IOW "SpeedBump Mallware detection has found such and
> such a site is trying to send potentially dangerous mallware to your
> computer, but due to our great efforts said attempt has been blocked
> saving you and future generations..." welllll... you get the idea.
> Most of it is harmless, but you need to pay attention. The alarm may
> simply be due to the add, or what ever residing on a host (not
> necessarily the site you are visiting ) that is known to be lenient on
> spammers and other lowlifes.
>
> 73
>
> Roger (K8RI)
> Remember...Don't Panic! from the Restaurant at the end of the Universe.
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