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UK PC Users Hit By Huge Fake Antivirus Attack
An anonymous reader writes "UK Internet users were on the receiving end of a large drive-by web attack at the end of February, which attempted to push fake antivirus at least 750,000 times on a single day alone, security company AVG has said. According to a company analysis, on Sunday 27 February, detection levels for the previously obscure Russian 'Blackhole' exploit kit suddenly spiked to 900,000 globally from a few tens of thousands that would be typical for such kits, before dropping back again. Unusually, almost 750,000 of these detections were for UK PCs, which offers a baseline for what must have been a sustained attack several times that size against mainstream web servers frequented by users in the country."
No OS is totally safe. Much of the safety of linux comes from its small market share and because the people that run linux are often more security conscientious than those that run other operating systems.
Well that is just simply untrue.
The whole Linux system has been designed to be anti-processing. In the sense that it will try to murder you and burn down your house if you want to get a program running.
God forbid what happens to the poor guys who try to run programs remotely. They go to a whole new level of Hell.