I visited a website with my browser, and several things happened. My hard drive started rotating furiously. Then a screen came up asking me to install a security product - this kind of thing is usually a scam. I shut everything down, and then windows update tried to put in several updates.
My questions are:
1. if you visit a malware site, can it read your saved passwords and any other information you were dumb enough to not delete from your browser?
2. Could 'windows update' actually load a virus on your computer? I notice that 'windows update' updates products such as HP printers, so why not update a back-door virus? And would Norton 360 be able to intercept this type of update?
Thanks.