Virus from a homepage?

[dyrwoolf]

I have heard that I can get a virus just bu surfing too a homepage without downloading anything or conforming a activeX component. Is this true?

[Pigman]

Yes, that is true.

That is why you should download HTAStop, if you don't already have it!

[meneer]

This kind of risk is mostly related to published vulnerabilities in the Windows operating system or Internet Explorer. By crafting pages that use the vulnerability, a script kiddy can exploit the hole and insert harmful code on a system. Noone will out of the blue create a virus distributing web page without knowledge of vulnerabilities.

As you can see: most of these hazards can be overcome by patching as soon as Microsoft publises a patch (tonight's the night :)), and also by removing the number one cause of infections, dump IE (here I go again...).