{"id":45549,"date":"2023-06-18T21:40:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T21:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=45549"},"modified":"2023-06-18T21:43:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T21:43:42","slug":"internet-illegal-infected-website-popup-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/internet-illegal-infected-website-popup-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet: illegal infected website popup, part II"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about Internet hazards: the tutor continues.<\/h2>\n<p>\nIn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/internet-youve-visited-illegal-infected-website\/\">yesterday&#8217;s post<\/a> I mention stumbling on a website by accident and meeting with a suspicious popup.<\/p>\n<p>\nAfterwards, I did a full system scan on the computer. The virus checker reported that it removed Scr.Malcode!gen43. This appears to be a Trojan horse which is usually downloaded somehow, and then loads further malware onto the host.<\/p>\n<p>\nI can&#8217;t help but wonder: Had Scr.Malcode!gen43 been present already, or did it reach the computer from that site with the popup that I reached yesterday by accident?<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.virustotal.com\/gui\/file\/21a0b617431850a9ea2698515c277cbd95de4e59c493d0d8f194f3808eb16354\">virustotal.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadcom.com\/support\/security-center\/protection-bulletin?\">broadcom.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about Internet hazards: the tutor continues. In yesterday&#8217;s post I mention stumbling on a website by accident and meeting with a suspicious popup. Afterwards, I did a full system scan on the computer. The virus checker reported that it &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/internet-illegal-infected-website-popup-part-ii\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Internet: illegal infected website popup, part II<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[741],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45549"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45556,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45549\/revisions\/45556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}