Malware watch while downloading

Kapersky announced that malware attack mode with drive-by download malware to be the most threatening mode last month. This is based on observations made Kapersky during November 2010.

Drive-by-download is one mode for distributing malware that automatically downloads a malware to your PC from a particular site. When the download, without you know there is also the process of infiltration that will put the executable files on your PC. Usually, a Trojan backdoor and inserted through this mode. After successfully inserting two of this malware, cyber criminals have full control over your PC.

One they can do after acquiring a lot of PC is controlling these PCs (called zombies) to create traffic on a server becomes very full, so make the service provided by the site was not optimal. Not optimal because of slow or severity could not provide the service.

In most cases, users will not even be aware of this danger because of all the drive-by attack occurred without their knowledge. One of which is underlined again by Kapersky, that malwaredrive-by downloads are not only occur on sites owned by cyber criminals. But you also must be vigilant on legitimate sites. Because of legitimate sites that have been compromised, have also been inserted on the link download malware.

For that, an easy way to protect yourself from malware is by Kapressky is routine to update the security services on your PC.