I am a new user. I work at a company with open windows 7 machines all over a large retail space. They are locked down fairly tightly. Portable apps have been a godsend for working arround the restrictions put in place to do my job and help my customers.
Ever since I started using Chrome and portable apps on a flash drive, the computers keep getting a click jacking virus. I am randomly sent to pixxie.com instead of where I wanted to go. The virus only affects IE. Is this something I am doing with the USB key? I have re-imaged the machines twice. I will keep the USB off the second machine and see if it helps.
Any suggestions on how I should tackle this? I would hate to lose chrome at work. It is so much faster than IE8.
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Internet Explorer Clickjacking
October 24, 2012 - 1:26am
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Internet Explorer Clickjacking
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It shouldn't be anything downloaded from PortableApps, but that doesn't mean your Flash Drive can't be infected by some other means.
If you are certain it is something on the Flash Drive (ie: the re-imaged machines are only infected after you use the flash drive), and probably Chrome .... could it be an extension in Chrome?
either way, you definitely need to run a decent anti-virus program on the Flash Drive as well as an anti-mailware/spyware program.
I'll leave any recommendations on what programs to use to more knowledgeable people.
ps: just to be paranoid, all your portable apps have been downloaded from this site?
1. I formatted the USB thumb drive before I put portable apps on it. 16GB Kingston.
2. I don't use IE at home. We use IE 8 at work. I don't think I can downgrade.
3. The original installer was downloaded and signed by portableapps.com and I used the app to download all of the portable versions of the software except SketchUp 8. None of my preferences save, but it works. I haven't used Sketchup since I re-imaged the machine the first time.
4. The only extension I enabled in chrome is flash. I need it at work, we just upgraded to flash for some of our core software.
I left the drive at work, I'll bring it home tomorrow and try a direct antivirus scan. It was brand new and I formatted it.
Thanks for the input.
-=EL=-