[RTTY] FW: [DDXA] QRZ.com virus?

[Robert Chudek - K0RC]

I agree with Rick. I have been using AdBlockPlus (free) for several 
years. They now have a version out that runs in Chrome as well. It's 
always an 'experience' to me when I visit someone who isn't using 
AdBlockPlus and I see all the 'crap' they have flashing and buzzing on 
their screen!

73 de Bob - KØRC in MN
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On 12/26/2011 5:02 PM, Rick Ellison wrote:
> 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 at contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On
> Behalf Of Don Hill AA5AU
> Sent: Monday, December 26, 2011 5:46 PM
> To: rtty at 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/>
>
>
>
>
>    _____
>
> From: ddxa-bounces at deltadx.net [mailto:ddxa-bounces at 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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