Opera site served Blackhole malvertising

[Prorootect]

Opera site served Blackhole malvertising, says antivirus firm here ..

Opera site served Blackhole malvertising, says antivirus firm: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/15/opera_blackhole/

'Opera has suspended ad-serving on its portal as a precaution while it investigates reports that surfers were being exposed to malware simply by visiting the Norwegian browser firm's home page.
Malicious scripts loaded by portal.opera.com were redirecting users towards a malicious site hosting the notorious BlackHole exploit kit, said a Romanian anti-virus firm BitDefender, which said it had detected the apparent attack on its automated systems. BitDefender said it promptly warned Opera after it detected the problem on Wednesday. It seems likely the scripts had been loaded through a third-party advertisement, a practice commonly known as malvertising.' ..

 

[Ink]

That's why I prefer to have about:blank or about:Tabs (IE) for Home (Alt+Home).

"scripts had been loaded through a third-party advertisement" -- Good reason to run an AdBlocker?

 

[ultradolby1]

...I'm not surprised, I tried Opera a few years ago when I knew a lot less about computers, & found a few days later, after looking around, I stumbled onto the fact that Opera had set an enabled instance in my firewall, without asking or notifying me, I know I know, the reply to that is, "it's in the EULA" - but that's bull to me, anything that snesky , & invasive, to me is wrong - no other browser has (to my knowledge), has ever done that - Comodo browsers forever...

 

[ultradolby1]

That's why I prefer to have about:blank or about:Tabs (IE) for Home (Alt+Home).

"scripts had been loaded through a third-party advertisement" -- Good reason to run an AdBlocker?

...and as far as an IE home page, instead of "about:blank" you can use "about:InPrivate" (just change it in your"home page" setting in "Internet Options), & change the run command to "auto private browsing mode" by: right click IE shortcut, Properties, in the "Target" box, to the right of everything, add:1 space, 1 minus sign, & then, the word "private", all lower case, (without the quotes), then "apply", so it goes, from this:

"%ProgramFiles%\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"

to this

"%ProgramFiles%\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" -private

& you'll always be in "Private mode"

 

[Prorootect]

That's why I prefer to have about:blank or about:Tabs (IE) for Home (Alt+Home).

"scripts had been loaded through a third-party advertisement" -- Good reason to run an AdBlocker?

yes, an anti - script? See IE Tools / Options / Security / Scripts : change to Deactivated ..

 

[Ink]

Off-Topic:

Thanks for the tips, but I don't like using InPrivate mode.

"InPrivate Browsing helps prevent Internet Explorer from storing data about your browsing session. This includes cookies, ... . Toolbars and extensions are disabled by default."

I need those Cookies and Extensions to use IE9.

 

[ultradolby1]

Off-Topic:

Thanks for the tips, but I don't like using InPrivate mode.

"InPrivate Browsing helps prevent Internet Explorer from storing data about your browsing session. This includes cookies, ... . Toolbars and extensions are disabled by default."

I need those Cookies and Extensions to use IE9.

...thanx back for those tips...

 

[malbky]

Opera was my long time favourite and after installing commodo I saw the same issue noticed by superboy. But I did not care much as I was in love with the browser. I was using it from early v9 actually. At v11 problems about stability and issues started to arise so I quit using it. I changed to dragon and there was no turning back.
Any decent AV with a script blocker would have blocked the add. Avast Free has it. Yet that was dangerous.
Whenver I used opera I also set speedial as my homepage.