Before I post the question, I know I need to upgrade to 2010. Intend to do so to NIS 2010 after tax man pays me
Yesterday a family member was on facebook. Somehow there was a pop up something about explorer needing to close. The family member being smart used task manager to close out.
However, another family member not so smart went into the history, and clicked on a history something like rysbabyc
which took them to www. getsabout .com ( I spaced out the name here so nobody would accidentally click on it)
The web page looked like an adobe reader format page, you know like when you open something with adobe reader.
Anyway they realized something was strange so they immediately clicked off the page. I did not wantto recreate that so I did not click on it to further explore.
But I did look up this webpage on safeweb.norton.com and there was nothing there about it. I came to find out that that webname (www. getsabout .com) was just "created" on 1/20/10 So I'm pretty sure this is some kind of malicious activity.
No again when the webpage came up it looked like an adobe reader format type thing and I think the specific link was a pdf format. But there appeared to be no content on it.
We have ADOBE reader version 9.3 so maybe the security aspects of that blocked the content?
I have since run scans with my Norton (NAV2008), SpyBOT, and Malwarebytes. ll come up clean. I notice no funky behavior of the computer. I even rebooted and booted and boot up went fine. Ran the aforementioned scans again after boot up, again all clean
So does this sound like it mave have been a malicious page?
The fact that the page was a pdf format with no content shown mean that maybe the new features of ADOBE Readerer version 9.3 blocked malicious content?
Also that my Norton blocked any malicious activity as evidenced by clean scans ( though nothing malicious shown in history)?
Does it appear that despit stupid behavior on family member's part, we came away unscathed,THIS time?