Kingfrog.., all these major service packs they release have a lot to do with updates they had to make because every 5 minutes some hacker has found a way to exploit Windows. There are so many security flaws in the system software that hackers find all these clever ways to exploit it. A few weeks ago my wife's laptop's virus software blocked a virus that exploited some flaw in the Microsoft Word program and tried to hide a virus there. Windows gets such a bad rap because of all the security flaws. Problem is that some people can't update with the service packs because MS service packs crash some PC's during the update.

Now that I think about it.., just yesterday the wife was telling me her anti-virus nailed a Trojan. All she was doing was reading the NEWS on Yahoo. A hacker most likely had a malicious file hidden in one of the ads and the Trojan was design to exploit a flaw in Adobe and attempted to plant a Trojan in that program.

It's a risk just loggin on to the internet today! I once had my anti-virus block a Trojan just by opening my browser! Again.., most likely some malicious file hidden in one of the ads on my Verizon home page.



[This message has been edited by squeak_D (edited 04-13-2009).]