Comments on: Gumblar – Latest e-Threat of the month http://www.onlinesecurity-guide.com/pc-security/gumblar-latest-e-threat-of-the-month/ Online threats are increasingly affecting work and leisure, stealing productivity and causing damage. Here you find solutions. Wed, 12 May 2010 20:37:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Eirik Iverson http://www.onlinesecurity-guide.com/pc-security/gumblar-latest-e-threat-of-the-month/comment-page-1/#comment-109 Eirik Iverson Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:55:08 +0000 http://www.onlinesecurity-guide.com/?p=99#comment-109 With over 100,000 legitimate websites apparently compromised and loaded with attack code and with unpatchable client side vulnerabilities in Microsoft ActiveX Video Control and DirectX, I've received a lot of questions from customers and sales prospects: - What is a "Drive-By Download Attack"? - {from more technical folk} Do Limited User Accounts Protect a PC from Drive-by Download Attacks? - What is a Limited User Account (Windows)? Why Should I Care? So, I crafted a post on my company blog I hope answers questions and unasked questions too: Is a PC Using a Limited User Account (LUA) Safe from Drive-by Download Attacks? http://www.blueridgenetworks.com/securitynowblog/endpoint_security/limited-user-account-does-not-protect-from-drive-by-download-attack I hope folk here find this interesting. Cheers, Eirik With over 100,000 legitimate websites apparently compromised and loaded with attack code and with unpatchable client side vulnerabilities in Microsoft ActiveX Video Control and DirectX, I’ve received a lot of questions from customers and sales prospects:

- What is a “Drive-By Download Attack”?

- {from more technical folk} Do Limited User Accounts Protect a PC from Drive-by Download Attacks?

- What is a Limited User Account (Windows)? Why Should I Care?

So, I crafted a post on my company blog I hope answers questions and unasked questions too:

Is a PC Using a Limited User Account (LUA) Safe from Drive-by Download Attacks?

http://www.blueridgenetworks.com/securitynowblog/endpoint_security/limited-user-account-does-not-protect-from-drive-by-download-attack

I hope folk here find this interesting.

Cheers,

Eirik

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