Comments on: Don't be so quick to click that Web page

If you thought e-mail threats were a pain, that's nothing. Trend Micro's Raimund Genes talks about the latest Net-borne danger to the computing world.

[shane--2008]

and still...

99.999% of these threats will only work with a microsoft product.

and people still don't understand.

[cascadia4]

and you don't think...

And you don't think that as market share transfers to Linux or Mac that the people who build these malicious codes won't turn their attention to those operating systems?

[Below Meigh]

What a foolish response!

Or should I state, ignorant response? Myspace had many faults with embedded problems loading QT movies that users had on their sites. It was more than a week after the nefarious issues was public that Apple released fixes for QuickTime. Yes, Windows is a serious of holes, but don't think that there aren't issues with Linux nor Mac OS X. Once the malicious find a hole, they'll exploit it, and sooner than it will (eventually) get fixed.
Being naive to the internet's insecurities is the reason there are problems to begin with.

[cowtown75]

Web security - Identifying Malicious URL's

I would like to recommend on a very useful and FREE Web safety plug-in called Finjan Secure Browsing.
It adds safety ratings to URLs showing on search results and popular websites, to help protect you from spyware, adware and other web-borne threats. This cool plug-in scans URLs in real-time using unique proactive security technologies. This morning it helped me avoid one when I was using the web to get the distance from Columbus, Ohio to Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

To try Finjan Secure Browsing, go to http://securebrowsing.finjan.com/.
Its free.

[Penguinisto]

phishtank works well too

-it was originally built to warn folks of phishing sites launched from email. Google, Firefox as well as Opera (I think?) use it as a realtime blacklist of suspicious sites.

Can't see why it couldn't be expanded on a bit...

/P

[hadaso]

If you don't want a website to install malware on your PC jusr don't let it

Don't browse the web with administrative privileges. There is no reason to give every website the right to administer your machine (and then use an obscure browser an tons of "security products" to try to overcome the damages of the malware you let in through your front door!

[Macsaresafer]

Lots of Windows software has admin rights.

You may not be logged in as an admin, but your software can easily
get those rights. If you really don't want this to happen, you need
to use a safer operating system. None are 100% safe, but ALL of the
alternatives are much safer than Windows.

[Dr_Zinj]

Web pages eh?

Now that brings to mind a neat infection concept.
"Binary munitions" or in this case, multi-partite malware. Browse site one and it stuffs a peice in your RAM, browse site two and it sticks another peice in your RAM, etc until it accumulates all the peices, one or more of which activate the program when conditions permit it.

[mhinnewyork]

DropMyRights can help

The free DropMyRights program can run any application in restricted mode while the user is logged on as an admin. See this article from my Defensive Computing blog at blogs.cnet.com.

Every Windows XP user should drop their rights
http://www.cnet.com/defensive-computing/8301-13554_1-9756656-33.html