Top smut site Flashes visitors, leaves behind nasty virus A massive malvertising campaign leveraging the recent Adobe Flash zero day vulnerability has surfaced on popular* adult site xHamster, analysts say. The attack served the Bedep Trojan to the site's 500 million viewers a month through a surreptitious exploit on the landing page. It did not take advantage of the Angler exploit …
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Your link isn't working, mate. I came across another broken link posted in the Reg yesterday - like yours it seems to have been truncated.
Either two Reg readers have been clumsy with their text select>copy in 24 hours - plausible - or the Reg forums needs a tweak.
Oh I just *love* people correcting others' English when they clearly haven't got a proper command of it themselves... :-)
Its - possessive - "The dog wags its tail".
It's - "It is" or "It has" - "It's a nice day" or "It's been a nice day".
"The dog wags it is tail" and "The dog wags it has tail" make no sense.
>"The dog wags it is tail" and "The dog wags it has tail" make no sense.
A bit too simplistic, the ban on the possessive apostrophe on "it" is arbitrary.
Let us consider the dog's tail, its tail wags.
The "it" is the dog, but while the dog gets the possessive apostrophe the dog as it doesn't.
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/22603/why-doesnt-its-have-an-apostrophe
No doubt I have broken numerous rules of grammar and speeling but in my defence I am not correcting but expanding upon the problem.
I think 'leveraging' is something the BOFH does on the roof, with an old tape safe, and a length of broom handle, and involves waiting for people who use the word in every-day conversation to walk past at street level.
No, that will be 'full protection' from those who 'infest' those websites...
hamster is a 'virgin' compared to the other awful sites out there.. some needing a 'hosts' entry to block their malware!!!
you go out with a 'nice' girl, but you still use protection!!!
Ahhh.. the argument *for* ads... Now, if all sites managed their adserver *properly* it would be easy to let their ads through...
BUT!!! many sites use the SAME server as those ugly using it to spread rude, loud, NSFW content!!!
so you block that server, and nice websites get blocked too... and of course you have not bothered to research!! goto https://adblockplus.org/ and you will see the message..
*******
"Unobtrusive ads aren't being blocked in order to support websites (configurable) "
FULL adblock ( get them from https://www.fanboy.co.nz ) three main types, look at the site!! :)
plus element hiding helper for adblock..
flashblock with whitelist
Yesscript is simpler , only blocks what you want..
and DO note, patience and caution helps, dont just press button without looking!!!!!! :O
Of course, it is the Lusers that are asked 'do you want to open the backdoor so I can ruin you??' they just shout 'TL; DR' and click OK...
If a friend has not put on a good AV, "why? it came with kaspersky!!!"
Virus sez: " ah, kaspersky LOLOL, expired.. let's ruin his day!!! :D :D
It's a Windows virus. See the Sophos and Virus Radar entries for Win64/Bedep.C, Win32/Bedep.B, etc. I believe it loads as a Windows dll (p2pcollab.dll, for instance). Mac, Linux, and BSD should be unaffected. If you run Solaris as a personal workstation, kudos and why?
as suspected
a nice fast linux machine with open source browser is like god mode for the internet. I hope linux doesn't win on the desktop because frankly the general public don't deserve an ops system that powerful. They can stick with their windows/xbox streaming/toy computers. Bonus points if they store all their files on someone else's file server. (lol).
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It's a Windows virus. Even if it could infect iOS, it couldn't use Flash as a vector because a certain CEO didn't like it - citing security issues, battery life, mouse_over events not being suitable for touch-based UIs and a desire for app developers to use iOS-specific development tools:
https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
My favourite thing at the moment is when you type in the name of a blocked site in the UK you get presented with "ACCESS TO THE WEBSITES LISTED ON THIS PAGE HAS BEEN BLOCKED PURSUANT TO ORDERS OF THE HIGH COURT" and a massive list of dodgy sites.
I for one would like to thank the powers that be for giving me such an extensive list of dodgy sites to refer to when d̶o̶w̶n̶l̶o̶a̶d̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶W̶A̶R̶E̶Z̶ , cough, errrr, doing research .
My congratulations, sir, for the highest defect density I have seen in a posting for some while. Considering the relatively small number of words used, you have surpassed the usual levels attained by the regular clientele of this website.
Awesome job. I assume you work in journalism, like a previous responder who doesn't understand the difference between "its" and "it's".
Double fail.
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