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[Ichigo]

I've noticed lately more and more sites have been infected with malicious software. I figured this should be talked about...I know there are random sites you can go to with specific forums for pointing out sketchy and websites that have known infections, but we can talk too. :D

So just list off different sites and programs that you know (either from heavy, accurate research or from personal experience) have malicious software on the

I don't know many, but I do know this one (from experience):
The My Heritage Celebrity Toolbar - I went on a site I knew about through facebook, and wanted to do their "celebrity morph" where you find out what celebrity you look most like through facial recognition. But then it said I had to download their toolbar first. I didn't really want to, but I figured I would delete the thing right after anyway. So I installed it, did the morph, and forgot about the toolbar. I disabled it, but it was still on my computer and everytime I tried to google search from my address bar, it instead searched through a "powered by Google" My Heritage Search. A little while later, I got fed up and decided to uninstall the program...When I did, my antivirus told me it found a highly dangerous trojan in the uninstall wizard. I immediately had the threat sent to the virus cault and deleted, then I did a security scan TWICE and everything seems a-ok. I have no computer problems, and I have had no problems with security. But it WAS a scare for me, I've never had an experience with malware before. DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS TOOLBAR NO MATTER THE CAUSE.

[trinest]

Yeah basic safety techiniques people learn over the years or just common sence, its a shame most people in the coming up internet generation don't grasp it as well as people who grew up with it in the 80s/90s.