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"...but I only surf to safe websites", says the infected computer user.
Hackers Used Flaw In Internet Explorer In New AttacksHackers Used Flaw In Internet Explorer In New Attacks
...Security firm FireEye Inc discovered the attacks against IE 10 this week, saying that hundreds or thousands of machines have been infected. It said the culprits broke into the website of U.S. Veterans of Foreign Wars and inserted a link that redirected visitors to a malicious web page that contained the infectious code in Adobe Systems Inc's Flash software.
...A Microsoft spokesman said the company was aware of the "targeted" attacks and was investigating. "We will take action to help protect customers," said spokesman Scott Whiteaker.
"...but I only surf to safe websites", says the infected computer user.
Thinking a government site is safe is a wild term to say the least
Healthcare.gov anyone ?
Cheers.
The feature Trusted sites zone should be removed from Internet explorer completely there really is no such animal,
Cheers.
Unfortunately most people do not know how to use the trusted zones with common sense,
Yours is an example of an exception of using common sense
Adding explicit sites or common sites like Yahoo... as a trusted site as a bad example of what to add to the trusted zone,
Or as far as this article is concerned any .gov site
Last edited by ThrashZone; 15 Feb 2014 at 17:21. Reason: spelling