Malware authors target Google Chrome
Scareware attack targets Google Chrome
Reply 1 : → Google Chrome Users Beware ←
I have found Microsoft Security Essentials to be basically useless, as the author of the posted article seems to have found. I use Kaspersky IS, have for years and have never had a problem. It does slow things down a bit, any really good anti-virus/malware program will, that's the point, it has to scan the object to see if any bad stuff is lurking inside. I buy it on eBay, typically $10-12 for a one year subscription. The only time I have ever had a problem was the last time I nuked and paved the CF-30 I put installing Kaspersky off until the load was finished. Halfway through, with only MSE protecting the computer, something got by, disabled MSE, and trashed the hard drive leading to another nuke and pave. Henceforth, its restore disk, Kaspersky, and then everything else.
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Reply 2 : → Google Chrome Users Beware ←
Interesting; I've been using MSE for a year now and zero ickies on 7 machines. I even doublecheck it against several other malware suites and it never fails.
What kind of dirty sites are you going to Cap'n?
I wanna go there too... get good and corrupted.
As an aside... I'd like to kick Ed in the 'nads for this little nugget:
"There’s nothing inherently safer about alternative browsers—or even alternative operating systems, for that matter—and as users adapt, so do the bad guys."
This is completely false; finding ONE exploit for Chrome, or a hundred for FireFox... still much less than the hundreds of thousands for Windoze and IE. Hardly even in the same league of incompetent.
mnem
*Dirty ol' reptile*
What kind of dirty sites are you going to Cap'n?
I wanna go there too... get good and corrupted.
As an aside... I'd like to kick Ed in the 'nads for this little nugget:
"There’s nothing inherently safer about alternative browsers—or even alternative operating systems, for that matter—and as users adapt, so do the bad guys."
This is completely false; finding ONE exploit for Chrome, or a hundred for FireFox... still much less than the hundreds of thousands for Windoze and IE. Hardly even in the same league of incompetent.
mnem
*Dirty ol' reptile*
Reply 3 : → Google Chrome Users Beware ←
I would be worried about it with parents and friends but If any tech savy user sees something like that it should be ignored.
I would have to say that Chrome is still better protection for this kind of stuff than IE.
This kind of stuff is starting to worry me. It seems like everything has some sort of software piggybacked onto it that you dont want and its getting far to easy for people to click on these scareware diagrams. Heck look at downloads at Cnet, the page it takes you to that pops up the download diagram has that banner ad that has the "DOWNLOAD NOW" button on it that people click thinking that its the correct download link.
I would have to say that Chrome is still better protection for this kind of stuff than IE.
This kind of stuff is starting to worry me. It seems like everything has some sort of software piggybacked onto it that you dont want and its getting far to easy for people to click on these scareware diagrams. Heck look at downloads at Cnet, the page it takes you to that pops up the download diagram has that banner ad that has the "DOWNLOAD NOW" button on it that people click thinking that its the correct download link.
Reply 4 : → Google Chrome Users Beware ←
Chrome's sandbox feature makes it a lot safer than other browsers: Chromium Blog: A new approach to browser security: the Google Chrome Sandbox
These "social engineering" attacks really shouldn't scare anyone who's been around the block. But I guess if you don't speak English, or you're an internet noob, it might be a problem. In which case you should be on a Mac.
These "social engineering" attacks really shouldn't scare anyone who's been around the block. But I guess if you don't speak English, or you're an internet noob, it might be a problem. In which case you should be on a Mac.
Reply 5 : → Google Chrome Users Beware ←
@Core Team I use the Safe Run "sand box" in Kaspersky frequently, sandboxes aren't new but most consumers won't take the time to use them.
@ mnem I must confess that I do a little file sharing on occasion, the kind that might require a keygen and a patch. I had the problem whilst reloading a computer, I'm guessing you can connect the dots. As for the rest of the file sharing, not all video down loads involve unnatural acts between mixed species. Dwagons have dirty minds.
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@ mnem I must confess that I do a little file sharing on occasion, the kind that might require a keygen and a patch. I had the problem whilst reloading a computer, I'm guessing you can connect the dots. As for the rest of the file sharing, not all video down loads involve unnatural acts between mixed species. Dwagons have dirty minds.
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Reply 6 : → Google Chrome Users Beware ←
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Originally Posted by capt.dogfish 
... not all video down loads involve unnatural acts between mixed species.
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As for the downloads... did you mean not all video downloads anywhere, or not all YOUR video downloads?
mnem
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