I just noticed there is something wrong with the IE on my laptop. As you can see from the screen capture, someone had obviously tampered with the browser. That phrase, which I mark in red below, will appear each time I launch IE.
I don’t know for how long that thing has been there or whether it has already mined anything valuable from my laptop — passwords, important numbers, mail address, etc — but it’s very presence is enough to make me worry.
A check on Google showed that there are some other IE users who are similarly affected by the problem. According to Sophos, it was a worm for the Windows platform which copies itself to the root folder of writable drives, and adds an autorun.inf file in an attempt to execute itself when the drive is mounted.
The worm, which is spreading via network shares and removable storage devices, also alters registry entries.
I’m now using Firefox as my default browser. However I had also noticed something weird with Firefox — each time I sign out from Gmail, there’s this Chinese character appearing while waiting for the page to refresh.
Could be nothing but I don’t know. You think my Firefox had also been compromised? What do the Chinese characters mean? Anyone facing similar problem?
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