A must read article if you have ever wondered why people get infected by viruses and they didn’t “do anything”.

I firmly believe a fully patched machine with no antivirus software is safer than the opposite.

Here it is! by Corey Nachreiner – Director of Security Strategy at WatchGuard

How do hackers get me to malicious sites? You might exclaim, “I’m not naive enough to visit suspicious web sites on the Internet.”

However, any site on the Internet—even the ones you trust the most—may have been hijacked and could be hiding a drive-by download.

http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=1946

In case you haven’t heard the term before, a drive-by download (DbD) is a class of cyber attack where you visit a booby-trapped web site and it automatically, and silently, downloads and executes malicious code on your computer.

article by Corey Nachreiner Description posted by Natasja de Groot

Bret Erickson

Passkey Computer Services – http://www.passkeyinc.com