This took me by surprise...

Hi all

I consider myself to be security aware....but surprised and amazed at the sneaky tactics of virus/malware writers.
I know that PC's can be infected on visiting crack,porn, games P2P.....but this weekend KAV alerted and cleaned a Trojan Dropper when I visited a BARBIE website looking for free wallpaper for my 5 year old daughter !!
These guys are the pits....

ftwynne59

 

Could be false positive alright... KAV was screaming Exploit.HTML.Htm on avast! forums too, not so long ago. It was a false positive.
So i wouldn't worrie much about it.

 

Hopefully, but I would not put it past the scum bags to put trojans on a Barbie site.
It is necessary to have an effective AV.
Jerry

 

Actually I read the other day that the scums were using children`s sites to deploy malware. Nothing surprises me anymore.

 

Some where here on the forum is an article or two about the most likely ways to become infected. One of them was searching for\DL`ing free stuff. Song lyrics, screen savers, and you guessed it, wallpaper. Welcome to social engineering.

 

Let's not forget that some sites are simply hacked and the malware/exploits are planted. Sometimes it takes weeks for the owner of the site to notice.

 

Wallpapers..and especially screensavers....2x of the biggest. That "waterfall screensaver" is very common...often the last thing someone has installed before needing help fixing their system because it got hit with adware.

 

Well....Next time I'm in the market for wallpaper, I'll take a trip to the local DIY.....