Oct 19
One of my students just reported this!
His teenage daughter’s PC was infested with a ton of malware.
After he driller her about where she had been visiting, he found out that she frequented YouTube very regularly. She remembered being told she needed a special codec to view a video. When she allowed the active X control to load is when she began to get the fake security alerts.
Within a couple of days this downloaded 186 different Trojans (the total infections were higher as some had been downloaded more than once), 44 viruses, and 22 worms. After he had removed almost all of them, he rebooted with network still connected and immediately re-infected with nealy 50 more trojans.
Be careful!
Debbie
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