(I posted earlier tonight about a trojan(/malware?) that installed automatically from a site I visited. No one replied as of yet; I added the single response that's there.) (TDS-3 was calling it a downloader trojan, BTW.)
TDS-3 identified it as - trojan.win32.revop.c
Spybot did not detect it.
Can I prevent sites from installing programs and especially trojans!?
It's random and scary! When visiting sites, I Alt+F4 to close popup windows. This site had quite a lot of windows. I didn't touch them though. Still, it installed. Does it make a difference, malware versus trojan?
So, what to do with my IE settings to prevent this?
I can't find a guide, or a list, that says plainly how to set my IE security settings. I do see lots of articles that talk about individual settings, but no list. They usually leave it up to the reader to decide what to do - well, I will be wrong, wrong, wrong! I have to be told how it should be. Mainly I want to prevent disasters like this from happening again. I hope I can do that.
(It installed three .exe programs.)
TDS-3 identified it as - trojan.win32.revop.c
Spybot did not detect it.
Can I prevent sites from installing programs and especially trojans!?
It's random and scary! When visiting sites, I Alt+F4 to close popup windows. This site had quite a lot of windows. I didn't touch them though. Still, it installed. Does it make a difference, malware versus trojan?
So, what to do with my IE settings to prevent this?
I can't find a guide, or a list, that says plainly how to set my IE security settings. I do see lots of articles that talk about individual settings, but no list. They usually leave it up to the reader to decide what to do - well, I will be wrong, wrong, wrong! I have to be told how it should be. Mainly I want to prevent disasters like this from happening again. I hope I can do that.
(It installed three .exe programs.)