Crafty bastards - Nearly had me

[NickFitz]

"New research pours scorn on the comforting but erroneous belief that Windows surfers who avoid smut and wares on the web are likely to avoid exposure to malware.

"A study by free anti-virus firm Avast found 99 infected legitimate domains for every infected adult web site. In the UK, Avast found that more infected domains contained the word "London" (such as the blog section of http://kensington-london-hotels.co.uk) than the word "sex". Among the domains labelled as infected by Avast was the smart phones section of the Vodafone UK website."

Linky

[doodab]

The moral of the story is don't let porn take over your life

[Troll]

Downloaded an avi video file, and ran it with VLC Media Player.

A window popped up saying "A new version of VLC Media Player is available. Would you like to download and install it?"

Like a complacent muppet I said yes, but luckily Kaspersky spotted a Trojan in the downloaded exe and deleted it.

The moral of the story is stay off those p0rn sites

FTFY

[TimberWolf]

Presumably it was a browser window that popped up rather than one produced by VLC ?

[OwlHoot]

Downloaded an avi video file, and ran it with VLC Media Player.

A window popped up saying "A new version of VLC Media Player is available. Would you like to download and install it?"

Like a complacent muppet I said yes, but luckily Kaspersky spotted a Trojan in the downloaded exe and deleted it.

The moral of the story is only download updates explicitly and manually from the supplier's site.