Why would I update Firefox? I’m using Internet Explorer.
It’s easy to think of the Internet bad guys out there as all-knowing, all-seeing monsters. They aren’t. They screw up too. Here’s a good one. This is something you might get from a link that appears in search engine results as a result of search engine optomization poisoning. If you go to the malicious site with the Firefox browser you’ll see this:
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But, if you’re using Internet Explorer, you see the same thing!
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VIPRE tells you that the site is trying to download Exploit.PDF-JS.Gen (v). We’ve been detecting it for a while now.
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Ultimately, it’s trying to download the SecurityTool rogue or other types of malware!
Thanks Patrick.
Tom Kelchner