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Thread #137558 Message #3146923
Posted By: JohnInKansas
03-May-11 - 03:34 AM
Thread Name: Tech: Osama Death causes Malware Explosion
Subject: RE: Tech: Osama Death causes Malware Explosion
The one who got snared was the writer of the article (Suzanne Choney).
It's all quotes down to [end quotes].
I'd usually add a comment, but merging the two different articles seemed like enough for people to read at a first shot.
The "redirection to malware sites" gambit has been increasingly common in recent months, and we apparently have had a couple of our people who got bit. (I think they blamed it on their cats(?) who were surfing without parental permission.) The ease of such mislinking apparently is part of the "reason" (assuming there really is one) for the annoying changes in the most recent IE versions, and probably is a big part of getting Adobe off their - - - posteriors - with the last pair of long overdue patches to Flash and Reader.