LiLmEgZ Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 Are you sitting down? I know this will come as a shock, and I want to prepare you. Adobe Flash is the source of a new attack against PCs. Honestly, in this case it really is not Adobe's fault (unlike some other past cases), but the software is still the vehicle used in this drive-by. Microsoft reports that Trojan:Win32/Preflayer is in the wild and changes the home page for Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or Yandex."These sites appear to be a type of search engine, but there are pop-up advertisements displayed on the pages, and there was an instance where I was redirected to a different page not of my choosing", Jonathan San Jose, Microsoft antivirus researcher, says.The Trojan attacks in the guise of a fake Adobe Flash update that pops up on the user's screen. According to the software giant's threat report "to trick you into thinking that it's a legitimate installer, it also downloads and runs the actual Flash Player installer". That makes this a bit scarier than the average fake Flash updates that we have grown accustomed to encountering over the past few years.The browser home page is changed to one of the following addresses:www.anasayfada.netwww.heydex.comMicrosoft details how the Trojan works in its threat report, including the attacks on Chrome, Firefox, Yandex and, of course, Internet Explorer. Microsoft also outlines steps to remove the virus, but users should probably be clued in to not get it, given that the pop-up box for installation is written in Turkish.Folks, Flash is dangerous. It also causes non-critical, but still annoying, browser problems. Many web sites have moved on to HTML5, but for those that have not, do yourself a favor -- enable click-to-run in your web browser and pick and choose carefully where you make that click. By all means, do not trust pop-up ads. If you need to update, then visit the official Adobe site and do so manually. It really is a jungle out there.Source: http://betanews.com/2013/03/29/new-trojan-can-hack-you-in-a-flash/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Orus Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 Thank you for this news alert! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambrocious Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 The other day...just before my computer stopped being able to acces the Internet, my whole computer froze up and this NEVER happens. I was at YouTube looking at the All Star Wars films in one when it happened, but I also had open a link to nsaneforums. I wonder if this is what happened....no clue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnmayer Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 thanks for let us all know about it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airstream_Bill Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 Interesting, Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirri Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 not surprised me since beginning Flash as attack vector. Hardening system security plus sandboxed browser could minimize attackanyway, thank 4 heads upcheers :wub: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TechnoNinja Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Thats interesting and worrisome at the same time. I hope my bitdefender anti-virus can defend against it. I doubt ill ever need it to tho since i wont click random links. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beamslider Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 Thanks for the info....I had already gotten rid of Flash due to it occasionally locking up chrome...Very annoying and flash just isn't worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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