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Anyone else being attacked by PC viruses in Yahoo?
This is the 4th time this has happened to me in a month. I simply go to a Yahoo page and a virus either attmepts to or succeeds in attacking my computer. It has happened in the past in Yahoo Answers, Yahoo Email and this time...when I was not logged-in, in Yahoo Weather. Does Yahoo know about this? I think these are coming from their banner advertisements.
This latest virus was called "Exploit-PDF.q.gen!stream". What is going on with Yahoo?
I have two answers here and I can tell you with certainty that you are both very wrong. I started my PC, did some surfing around the internet from Yahoo sites only, never logged-on to email and merely went to a Yahoo page (Yahoo Weather in this recent event) and my anti-virus software alerted me to the attack. You may *think* you know how these viruses spread...as I did too. But it's a whole new game these days. Viruses can now be spread by merely surfing to a page and I *think* by the banner advertisements that are on those pages. My anti-virus caught this one, but in the previous 2 times, it did not and it infected my PC. In the past, the viruses would "redirect" me to the websites of their choosing. So, this does have a commerical application for advertisers that are trying to get more hits on their websites - hence I can see how a banner ad might contain a malicious virus embedded in it.
5 Answers
- Tis eye! ØØØLv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
the suggestion has been removed, maybe yahoo's way of putting their head in the sand
We may be able to help Yahoo identify the advertisements that are triggering
these phony virus alerts.
Follow the directions from Yahoo employee Gordon as described here...
http://suggestions.yahoo.com/detail/?prop=groups&f...
I was able to do this earlier today when I confronted this thing again. On the
Tech Support form, you can put something like "ad.yieldmanager data immediately
after getting hit with phony virus alert" in the 'Additional Information' box.
Make sure you mention the name of your antivirus software. And you can put the
results of from ad.yieldmanager in the 'Error message' box.
If you can, please post these steps in your groups. If enough of us are able to
"capture" our cookies, and forward that data to Yahoo, they might be able to
identify and ban these ad clients.
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- magnumgirlLv 71 decade ago
Yes this has been happening to me also, on the mail site when opening a Best Answer email from Yahoo. Twice this week alone. My virus spyware did catch it and took care of it. I had McAfee on my last computer, and the virus hit and mcafee didn't see it or catch it. So guess what, I got a new computer. I also bought Trend Micro on my new computer, and that didn't catch the latest virus attack either. So my new computer went into the shop for cleaning. A couple of hundred dollars later, I've got Webroot and it catches all of it so far. I know it's coming from the ads, because it tells me when I do a scan. I'm leary of downloading anything like Adblock, etc. that eliminates ads.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
You need stronger anti-malware protection on your computer - an anti-virus and firewall are not enough these days! You need a constantly running anti-malware program as well - Windows Defender, Threatfire or some other. Search for and install one.
It's not the fault of Yahoo, but yourself, for not being defensive - you downloaded this one all by yourself by opening an attachment without scanning it first.
Since you identified it by yourself, why didn't you use a search engine to research it?
Source(s): http://home.mcafee.com/VirusInfo/VirusProfile.aspx... http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-an... - How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
- MurzyLv 71 decade ago
the virus you have was not caused by Yahoo but by a trojan virus concealed in either an email, chat room or another website
