Site Advisor: An Internet User's Indispensable Tool

I was lazily browsing the net, until I ended up on one website wherein several pages loaded one after another. Right away, it raised a red flag on my geek meter. The pages that loaded were mostly bogus ad sites. Bogus because I never requested for those web pages. They just popped out of nowhere. Then the confirmation came. My anti-virus software sitting in my desktop immediately prompted me about an infected file and the trojan name was "exploit byte-verify". Most low threat viruses that gets into your PC can be cleaned right away by most anti-virus software, but this one cannot be cleaned and cannot be deleted completely as well. I attempted to delete the file but apparently it didn't work because the bug has a read-only attribute. So I left it sitting in my PC while I scoured the net for answers. There were do-it-yourself solutions to removing the bug, but I didn't bother to experiment on them instead, I just downloaded a more updated and powerful virus protection software, and that did the trick, at a price of course.

Well, I was more concerned about how did I end up in a mal-infested web site in the first place and how could that be possible. All the while we thought that certain websites like pornographic sites, free sites, share ware sites are the sites that are typically infested by the dirty net bugs and that for us long as we don't go that way we are perfectly safe. Not anymore! Why?

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