Hackers Use Web Sites, Ads to Infect PCs

washingtonpost.com ^ | Tuesday, November 23, 2004 | Brian Krebs

[crushelits]

IE is weak and most spy ware, Trojans, etc are made to exploit these weaknesses.

I normally don't have any of problems with Netscape.

[crushelits]

I use:

[ExtremeUnction]

But I also use Ad Muncher, which I warmly recommend.

I paid the $10 for Ad Muncher and I've NEVER had a pop-up since. It's fantastic.

[FreedomPoster]

Actually, the Java 1.5 version is available in the developers area.

[macsmind76]

Then just keep that Spybot up to date!

"Happily surfing away!"

[macsmind76]

Agreed.

Windows is a "delight" to hack. With IE at the core (incidently no matter what anyone says, IE has NOT been significantly updated since version 5), it is chocked full of holes.

The point is Firefox is the way around this IF you MUST use Winblows.

OSX (287 days without a restart - Unix rocks)

[macsmind76]

"Macs are not usually hacker targets because the install base is not as large as Windows PCs. This does not make them less vulnerable, just not as prone to attacks."

No, there just isn't as many "holes" to get through the system, harder to hack, less viruses and worms.

"Give me a computer that does more than just display a sad face when something is wrong."

Hasn't done that since 1999, OS X - BSD Unix, rocks, unlike me XP. Much more stable, no question.

"Windows computers are stable and offer a wider selection of software."

I'll give you that on the software, why just this morning I removed 186 pieces of that off our windows nodes through spybot. Yep, there sure is a lot of it. Just about every major software works on both platforms, most of the other stuff is well, crap.