Drive-by-downloads

Hi there,

As you know, there is a new kind of virus. It's called a "drive-by-download". You can already get a virus by visiting a malicious url. When going to one of these malicious sites, it downloads the virus to your computer, and automatically executes it.

I have visited one of these malicious sites before, and it asks you to run a java applet. Well does NOD32 protect against this kind of threat? I am not completely sure as I got a virus before from visiting a malicious site (I didn't had ESET, but another antivirus).

Cheers

 

It does. However, it's like with any other malware - no security sw detects 100% of all threats. Even if the malicious JS itself is not detected, the file it downloads might be which means the malware itself would be blocked.

 

"Drive-by-download" is not a virus, per se. As defined here