Spyware Bastards

Instead of being at work right now I’m sitting here removing viruses and spyware from my development machine. I’m in the process of redesigning the blizzog and was looking for a cool new font for a logo, so I went to 1001Fonts.com. DON’T GO THERE!!!! My machine has been acting funny ever since but I didn’t think much of it. Finally this morning I got serious about looking into it.

It turns out that I have a spyware ad launcher and a keylogger installed on my machine. I’m in the process of having McAffee get rid of it right now but my Google searches indicate that this could take many hours to sort out. Looking through the timestamps of the files, it seems that these programs were put on my machine while I was at 1001fonts.com.

It seems that they were able to get installed on my machine without any action on my part due to a possible exploit in Internet Explorer. I think it’ s time for a little Mozilla or Opera.

This sucks.