"Surferbar" virus>Outlook sucks>best browser/email client

[dogscoff]

OK, one of the NT machines here at work just got hit by this so-called "surferbar" thing. I looked it up on the web and learned how to remove it, but I can't find anything anywhere about how to prevent getting it in the first place. As far as I know the machine I've just cleaned could easily get re-infected at any time.

Apparently this surferbar is propagated via a weakness in directX which makes it vulnerable to a "drive-by download", whatever the hell that is. I'm not sure Zonealarm will be enough to stop this PoS getting onto my XP system at home.

Anyone got any ideas? If I can help it, I'd rather not download any of that anti-spam/ anti popup software (Zone alarm and google toolbar are as much as I want to run, thanks), I'd like to find a windows patch or registry setting that will stop this kind of crud infecting my system.

BTW, I'd just like to point AGAIN that Microsoft are utterly CRAP for releasing operating systems with so many critically dangerous gaping security holes. Every one of these fkn things pushes me that little bit closer to Linux.

[ September 05, 2003, 09:34: Message edited by: dogscoff ]