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[YoKenny]

I found this interesting

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Avira survey: only one out of every two people know the danger of Drive-by-Downloads
Tue, 19 August 2008

Using alleged harmless websites, offenders smuggle malware, such as viruses, Trojan Horses and Adware, unnoticed on to computers. However more than half of the internet users have never heard of Drive-by-Downloads.

Tettnang, 19 August 2008 – Phishing, Pharming, Spoofing and Drive-by-Downloads: the possibilities for money-grabbing online scams to spy on personal surfing data are increasing. Eleven percent of users underestimate the danger of falling for online scams because "they do not visit any obscene internet pages". This is a big mistake as it only needs the user to surf on an alleged harmless internet site, the opening of an e-mail or just clicking of a popup in order to infect the computer with dangerous malware. In their most recent survey, the protection experts from Avira have posed the "moral issue of the month" to 10,390 visitors on www.free-av.de: "In all honesty, are you really aware of the risk of Drive-by-Downloads?"

http://www.avira.com...-downloads.html

I use Avira on my old 500MHZ PIII 512MB RAM system running XP Pro SP3 and it works quite well.

[Tarq57]

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Avira survey: only one out of every two people know the danger of Drive-by-Downloads

Cripes.
That many!
Mind you , that's of a cross section of folk who have actually taken the survey, and thus demonstrated some interest in computer security.
I reckon the real number is probably about 20%.

[hazelnut]

I am sure some folk think drive -by - downloads are Big Mac's through the car window.

[YoKenny]

hazelnut, on Aug 20 2008, 07:41 AM, said:

I am sure some folk think drive -by - downloads are Big Mac's through the car window.

Personally I like the Drive-thru beer barns down in the good ol' USofA.

[Corona]

It all sounds less harmful than the Drive-By media.

[YoKenny]

Calvin and Hobbs email just delivered to me:
http://www.gocomics....bbes/2008/08/20