So now I’m running my search tools in a Sandbox to isolate it, and just hit my first hijack \/ trojan attempt.\u00a0\u00a0 It was a web site that formerly was a religious station.<\/p>\n
It showed a picture of a woman sitting on a toilet naked…. and when you moused over the image, it announced pretty convincingly that your version of Adobe Flash needs to be updated (uh-huh) and you sthould start the download….\u00a0\u00a0 Attempting to back out of the page or navigate away from the page initiates a download of one of those fake antivirus scanners.<\/p>\n
None of that did anything, but not really because of the sandbox.\u00a0\u00a0 But just in case, with one click anything it did goes bye-bye.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I also notice the sandbox caught RealPlayer trying to add itself back into my “Scheduled tasks” lists in Windows (without asking).\u00a0\u00a0 That alone is worth the price of running sandboxed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So now I’m running my search tools in a Sandbox to isolate it, and just hit my first hijack \/ trojan attempt.\u00a0\u00a0 It was a web site that formerly was a religious station. It showed a picture of a woman … Continue reading