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'but lately how are these drive-by installations happening? Mostly through holes in third-party software' nope. by the user running an installer when requeste

• Niten 15y ago
  > nope. by the user running an installer when requested by a browser ad popup. I agree that this is how most malware happens in general, but I was talking specifically about the subset of malware installations that are drive-by downloads, i.e. which are performed without user interaction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive-by_download http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive-by_download What I mean to say is that most of those are exploiting third-party software (Java, Adobe Flash and Reader) rather than Microsoft stuff these days.
  • Pheter 15y ago
    The first point your link makes is that Drive-by downloads includes user intervention: "Downloads which a person authorized but without understanding the consequences".