Just informational

[Unregistered]

Once in awhile I will log onto a website which appears to be legit. re: the subject I am interested in (usually pc security). But, wow, how often do we all check the home pages or privacy statements or whatever? Recently, requested my favorite search engine to locate ProxyJudge v2.35 and the usual list came up for viewing. Included was a cute site called "The Little Things that matter" (I will not give the URL because I don't want inexperienced folks going there). Site had the usual proxy check info. but went to the home page for the heck of it and got an eyeopener. Very threatening and one link was highly inappropriately personal. Thank goodness I was outfitted with my arsenal of protection. Have had this experience before (another site under privacy statement warned that all unprotected viewers should consider themselves "hacked"). Afterwards, I did have one "infected file". Be cautious of "links" in these areas (do not click on). And hope it's a hoax, but I don't think so!!! So please check the things at the bottom first to know what kind of website you are viewing. And get a firewall!!!!!. (A smile also).

[Siseneg]

Do yourself a favor and disable ActiveScripting, ActiveX, Java, and downloads while browsing and you won't have that kind of problem in the future. A firewall won't protect you from browser exploits.

It's also a good idea to compare the URL in your status bar while holding the mouse over the URL you're thinking about clicking to see where it actually leads and that it's not something other than an http prefix. There's an XP vulnerability that uses an hcp prefix on a URL.

[Unregistered]

Have done all things that you have suggested. regards, guest

[Siseneg]

No problem.

If you're interested you can read about and test your browser against various exploits at these sites:

http://www.guninski.com/

http://sec.greymagic.com/news/

Most of the vulnerabilities listed can be avoided by disabling those options.