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Crafty bastards - Nearly had me

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    Crafty bastards - Nearly had me

    Downloaded an avi video file, and ran it with VLC Media Player.

    A window popped up saying "A new version of VLC Media Player is available. Would you like to download and install it?"

    Like a complacent muppet I said yes, but luckily Kaspersky spotted a Trojan in the downloaded exe and deleted it.

    The moral of the story is only download updates explicitly and manually from the supplier's site.
    Work in the public sector? Read the IR35 FAQ here

    #2
    Presumably it was a browser window that popped up rather than one produced by VLC ?

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      #3
      Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
      Downloaded an avi video file, and ran it with VLC Media Player.

      A window popped up saying "A new version of VLC Media Player is available. Would you like to download and install it?"

      Like a complacent muppet I said yes, but luckily Kaspersky spotted a Trojan in the downloaded exe and deleted it.

      The moral of the story is stay off those p0rn sites
      FTFY
      How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

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        #4
        Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
        The moral of the story is don't let porn take over your life
        While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'

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          #5

          "New research pours scorn on the comforting but erroneous belief that Windows surfers who avoid smut and wares on the web are likely to avoid exposure to malware.

          "A study by free anti-virus firm Avast found 99 infected legitimate domains for every infected adult web site. In the UK, Avast found that more infected domains contained the word "London" (such as the blog section of http://kensington-london-hotels.co.uk) than the word "sex". Among the domains labelled as infected by Avast was the smart phones section of the Vodafone UK website."

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