More than a year ago I started using an add on for Firefox called AdBlock
plus. Since doing so I have not gotten ANY Spyware/malware/Viruses from any
of the advertising on ANY site. With websites using rotating banners most of
the time If one person gets infected you can't always depend on the next
person to get infected. Now a day's 80 percent of all infections are gotten
thru advertising on websites...
73 Rick N2AMG
-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Don Hill AA5AU
Sent: Monday, December 26, 2011 5:46 PM
To: rtty@contesting.com
Subject: [RTTY] FW: [DDXA] QRZ.com virus?
Anyone get hit with a virus from QRZ.COM? I haven't been to the site since
W5FKX told me about this a couple days ago. It looks like something similar
to what I got a couple months ago from contesting.com.
I'm not brave enough to go to QRZ.COM right now. Anyone know a person we
can contact at QRZ.COM to inform them they might have a virus on the site?
73, Don AA5AU
http://www.aa5au.com <http://www.aa5au.com/> http://www.rttycontesting.com
<http://www.rttycontesting.com/>
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From: ddxa-bounces@deltadx.net [mailto:ddxa-bounces@deltadx.net] On Behalf
Of Don W5FKX
Sent: Monday, December 26, 2011 2:19 PM
To: DDXA
Subject: [DDXA] QRZ.com virus?
Just a note of caution for all - while doing some QSL work last week, I
picked up a malicious bug claiming to be "Vista Antivirus
2012", that completely interrupted my pc function with exclamations that it
was protecting me from multiple attacks as displayed by
a "scan" showing all of these, and blocking access to the internet by other
programs while offering to protect my pc for a sign-up
fee! Researching with my laptop, I found that it is variously called "XP
Antispyware 20YY", "Vista Antispyware ...", "Win7
Antispyware ...", depending upon your OS, and apparently the "YY" began in
'09 and is now '12.
After some tedious cleanup, I got rid of it. Some more poking about brought
me to the conclusion that it probably came from QRZ.com.
After several days of "clean" operation, I returned to QRZ.com today to
lookup another callsign, and ... bingo!! ... back came the
virus!
My browsing exposure to malicious software is probably exacerbated by the
fact that I run as Administrator, allowing a greater
degree of exposure. Unfortunately, my anti-virus program, Zone Alarm, did
absolutely nothing to protect me on either occasion. A
complaint to them elicited the comment ".. we can't always keep up with
permutations ...". Guess I will have to quit using QRZ.com
... sigh!
73,
Don W5FKX
http://www.deltadx.net/
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