It's easier to just white-list, Anubis.
Everything is black, until you white-list them.
-John
Did anyone actually get infected with anything through firefox? I'm assuming I'm safe, but I don't want to assume wrong, maybe something did attack me and I just don't know it. Running a Malwarebyte scan now so far so good.
While I was attacjed more than once, I don't believe the code actually ran.Did anyone actually get infected with anything through firefox? I'm assuming I'm safe, but I don't want to assume wrong, maybe something did attack me and I just don't know it. Running a Malwarebyte scan now so far so good.
If nothing happened to you, chances are you're infected.
This would be a good time for Windows users to give their rigs a check with the Secunia PSI utility, and for users of other OSes to manually confirm that their Adobe Flash Player and Adobe Reader installations (if present) are fully up-to-date.
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/ Secunia says 98% of first-time scans find at least one program that needs a security patch. You?
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
http://get.adobe.com/reader/
Moar security tweaks for Windows: http://www.mechbgon.com/security Vista/7 users, note the new SEHOP item.
Images are the source of the problem.
Did anyone actually get infected with anything through firefox? I'm assuming I'm safe, but I don't want to assume wrong, maybe something did attack me and I just don't know it. Running a Malwarebyte scan now so far so good.
I would suspect that all browsers that have enabled the Adobe Reader plugin are susceptible.
The only real lesson to be learned here is that Anandtech has no idea when, why, or where they are serving up viruses.
The rest of us, that pracrice safe browsing will remove them from white-list.
How can you POSSIBLY RUN a website, and not whitelist your ads?
-John
As I mentioned in the Technical Forum Issues thread, this would be a good time for a checkup. To save some typing...
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Also make sure your Data Execution Prevention's fully enabled:
funny thing about Secunia, i cant seem to get flash to show up as anything but insecure, even after downloading the solution
2) if a subsequent scan still shows vulnerable versions of Flash after rebooting, run the Flash Player Uninstaller, then reboot, then install the latest version of Flash into whichever browser(s) you use.
Any good?