Last week while we were investigating the impact of the ASPRox botnet, I visited an infected site. Refusing all prompts and messages caused by the site, I thought everything was fine. It wasn’t, and being too busy was probably the issue.
Lets say something else is loading in background while I write this blog, as is often the case. I’m merrily typing away and a dialog box comes into focus, by that I mean a popup window or dialog with buttons comes to the front of your screen for you to action.
Normally you notice these dialogs but if you are typing quickly you can easily type a word that contains one of the letters on the prompt, let say it has Yes and No to install, by typing a word with y in it, you will tell it to go ahead and do it’s thing. I’m pretty sure this is what happened to me, however the infection didn’t get very far as I had not allowed it to download some files it needed to activate properly. My virus scanner also picked up the files as soon as they tried to execute, prompting me to investigate and remove the infection and the registry entries it created.
So the tip this week is not to multitask too hard or you’ll cause a task to happen that you didn’t want and possibly get a virus on your machine. That's my excuse anyway 
