Beware the xulcache.jar!

A nasty virus infected me because I clicked on a link which was sent to me through a local political organization. I knew the sender and the group, and I did no more than go there. It was obvious spam, so I posted the group thusly:

I have anything against legitimate Ukrainian businesses, but personally, I would beware of that particular site:

http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=whois&host=news15de.net

http://www.workathometruth.com/herman-cain-email-spam-used-by-scammers-to-push-home-business-scams/

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…fortunately I am running NoScripts which blocked what it wanted to do. Just to be on the safe side, I’ll run Malwarebytes.

No big deal, at least, so I thought. Until the start button stopped working, and I couldn’t use control>alt>delete. So I ran Windows Defender, and this came up:

Interesting that it could not be deleted. What a supreme waste of time.

I should probably avoid being on lists.


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