Citizen Malware?
from the whoops dept
Apparently OhMyNews, the Korean site that was the first major proponent of the citizen journalism concept, got hit with a bit of malware over the weekend that could have been installed on the computers of visitors to the site. It's a reminder that things like trojans and keyloggers are increasingly sneaking their way onto computers through completely legitimate sites that have been compromised. I recently got hit with one such trojan, despite using 3 different anti-spyware apps and an anti-virus app -- not to mention not downloading random crap and generally trying to stay on known websites. It took quite a bit of effort (and some help from some smart spyware fighters) to get rid of it, as it buried itself pretty deeply. In fact, in the end, I had six different anti-spyware products running on my machine -- and only two found the trojan, and neither could remove it.
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System Restore?
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spyware fighters
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Re: spyware fighters
http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/security
http://www.webuser.co.uk/forums/postlist. php/Cat/0/Board/hijackthis
http://www.geekstogo.com/
and a few other sites. If you to any of those and post a HiJackThis log, they're likely to help you out.
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Spyware targets
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Mac OS X
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