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Drive-by downloads: Can you get malware just from visiting a website?
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<blockquote data-quote="wat0114" data-source="post: 951545" data-attributes="member: 91306"><p>I was reading through this fascinating thread again, especially posts that I missed earlier, when I was reminded of the time getting hit by the MS blaster worm in the early 2000's after a fresh install of XP, before the service pack that enabled the inbuilt firewall by default. My ISP only provided me a high speed cable modem, no router combo, and I didn't own a router yet. It couldn't have been more than two minutes after the install completed when the h/drive was thrashing wildly, then I saw the worm running in Task manager. </p><p></p><p>How about this being <u>even worse</u> than a drive-by download!? It wasn't even necessary to browse to a website to get hit by this worm and of course no user action required whatsoever.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wat0114, post: 951545, member: 91306"] I was reading through this fascinating thread again, especially posts that I missed earlier, when I was reminded of the time getting hit by the MS blaster worm in the early 2000's after a fresh install of XP, before the service pack that enabled the inbuilt firewall by default. My ISP only provided me a high speed cable modem, no router combo, and I didn't own a router yet. It couldn't have been more than two minutes after the install completed when the h/drive was thrashing wildly, then I saw the worm running in Task manager. How about this being [U]even worse[/U] than a drive-by download!? It wasn't even necessary to browse to a website to get hit by this worm and of course no user action required whatsoever. [/QUOTE]
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