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Re: do you get viruses from searching for art/references?
Images can contain viruses, and those viruses can be obtained without clicking the image or visiting links. Generally, however, you need to be using an older browser for that to work. The simplistic explanation: Bad person puts virus code at end of really long metadata. Browser loads metadata, but metadata is too big.… -
Re: do you get viruses from searching for art/references?
...what manner of "references"? I haven't had a virus on my PC in years, and any references I need I just grab from the usual places (Google Images, mostly.) I've had my free antivirus (Avast, old habit) block some "unsafe" results I've tried to open from Google image search results ("Blah blah we've blocked a harmful… -
Re: do you get viruses from searching for art/references?
It could be coming from aonther system on your network. Scan them all with MalwareBytes and Avast. MSSE is basically bare minimum protection, it's going to miss a lot of stuff. -
Re: do you get viruses from searching for art/references?
I managed to get a virus once through google image search using Firefox with no extensions about two years ago. I was looking at photographs of potential holiday destinations, of all things. I followed a dodgy link, and it managed to do something dodgy in the background. I'm still not sure what the mechanism was, but it… -
Re: do you get viruses from searching for art/references?
application of common sense when being prompted to click on things seems to help most. but indeed you can end up in some dark places when using an image search engine. i don't trust windows on the net generally - it's just too popular, making it the main target for exploits - and keep anything internet-facing mostly to my…
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