IE has ceased to work properly today and keeps crashing and I do not know why, so now I am using Firefox instead which also seems better too.
IE has ceased to work properly today and keeps crashing and I do not know why, so now I am using Firefox instead which also seems better too.
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I found out why, I have a bloody trojan and I do not know how but it is there in port 5000.![]()
Main Rig: i2600k@4.3Ghz/ASUS P8P67 PRO/MSi GTX580/16GB Mushkin/HAF X/Noctua NH-D14
Make sure your windows is upto date (all the patchs), the byte verifier bug is one of the biggies that lets a hell of a lot of spyware/trojans through.
Use ad-aware regularly along with your virus checker (keeping both upto date).
I use MyIE2 as I find it better than Avant that I used to use and nicer than Firefox.
The byte verifier bug is java based so any browser can let stuff through. Make sure your patched![]()
.........upgrades to firefox or Opera. That really is quite poor of MSusing internet explorer. viruses can infect your system through nothing more than you visiting a web page.![]()
Last edited by Dorza; 04-06-2004 at 01:10 AM.
nope, that's wrong. the java virtual machine runs in a sandbox - the sun jvm doesn't have any known exploits, and the microsoft jvm isn't distributed anymore.Originally Posted by Rabs
javascript exploits can't work entirely independantly.
most of the viruses i've seen which infect via IE can ONLY infect via IE - either using the rediculously insecure Windows Media Player 7 ActiveX component, or forcing IE to read an infected .chm file (which, helpfully, it will open with full system permissions). Visit a page, a 0x0 frame containing the virus code forms part of the page, bam. that's it. IE sees the infection code & runs it without question.
No IE-based browser offers any extra security over that
And even if you can track down any kind of exploit which can tough another browser, IE is the one that soaks up spyware etc as well as viruses.
yeah, here we are, http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/v....aspx?id=36725
it's not a java bug, it's a bug in the java version that microsoft use in nt5 or below - users of sun java are unaffected - and non-ie browsers can't use the dangerous ms jvm
Anyone know how to get rid of the trojan that I have then please, it is one of the ones that affects port 5000, but I have not been able to find and erradicate it yet.![]()
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