It's truly becoming a scary world out there in Cyberspace!!! Sent from my iPhone
> On Nov 20, 2014, at 3:44 PM, Ted Roche <[email protected]> wrote: > > The malware keeps getting nastier. > > A coworker who only surfs People Pets and yahoo (network admins know these > things) came down with a Google Search replacement malware that replaced > search engines and start pages and embedded a Windows service to keep them > that way on *all three* browsers. On a fully-patched machine with firewalls > and virus scanners. This stuff gets nasty. > > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox) < > [email protected]> wrote: > >>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Ted Roche <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> There are few things more dangerous than an out-of-date Windows box >> surfing >>> the internet. It sounds like your IE has been taken over by malware. I'd >>> hit Windows update, get your Flash up to date, remove all IE extensions >> and >>> perhaps check into some malware removal. >> >> Thanks, Ted -- >> >> Yes, it appears that Coupon Companion is something Evil. >> >> I'm not sure how this could happen, because this is a W7 VM under Parallels >> from which I have *never, literally never, before* used IE. Almost never >> used any kind browser from it. And W7 is fully up-to-date. >> >> Crap --- just another time suck. >> >> <grumble> >> >> >> --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- >> multipart/alternative >> text/plain (text body -- kept) >> text/html >> --- [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
