His findings are exhaustive and eye-opening:Īfter researching the website I can confirm that the site is utilizing 3rd party exploits in order to deliver malware. When the only viable solution to sickness is to kill the patient, you have a problem of epidemic proportions.Īdam McNeil, of Webroot Software, was kind enough to lend an investigative hand and duplicate the GameCopyWorld scenario. They'd probably have to buy a new computer. I'm trying to imagine what my mother or father would do if this happened to them. Sure, we can recover, but we do this stuff for a living. I think every technical computer user should have this experience, so they can see first hand, on their own machine, the profound evil that we're up against. I got a small taste of the experience awaiting casual users when they browse the web without the latest patches and updates. Yes, I know this is a spectacularly stupid thing to do. All I did was open a GameCopyWorld web page in an unpatched, original circa-2001 version of Internet Explorer 6.0. To be absolutely clear, I never clicked on any advertisements, or downloaded and executed any files.
In How to Clean Up a Windows Spyware Infestation, I documented how spyware can do a drive-by infection of your machine through your web browser.
The Windows Security Epidemic: Don't Run as an Administrator
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