ned Productions Consulting


Technology musings by Niall Douglas
ned Productions Consulting
(an expert advice and services company based in Ireland)


Monday 21st January 2013 2.53am

My laptop just got infected by a webpage via a Java exploit which loaded a load of viruses onto it while I was looking at golfers' opinions on sunglasses! I only noticed because the hard drive went nuts during page load, and I thought "hmm that's odd, even for Java". So I fired up task explorer and lo and behold, there were running processes downloading and writing files with random hexadecimal names all over the hidden parts of Windows. Needless to say, I instantly disabled Wifi, and it's now running a deep virus scan and clean. I am not impressed - second time ever getting a virus in my life, and the virus scanner didn't catch it. Too new I guess. It's irritating actually, I normally run Java disabled, but Google Chrome has been constantly crashing recently so I was temporarily using Opera which had Java turned on :(