Anyone else had a problem with virus infections while in the “Hamas leader electrocuted by Israel” thread here — http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12134701#post12134701 ?
Here’s what I seem to have picked up both times I posted in it - Trojan.Win32.FraudPack.alnv
Do you recall what ads were on the page?
That might help us track this down.
I don’t see ads, so I didn’t get anything. But it looks like good old Antivirus2008 Those fake antiviruses are probably the most common malware out there. My experience is that the GQ sticky contains sufficient instructions on how to completely get rid of them.
As for the rest: well, you need to figure out which ads were showing when you got it. Most of these don’t require you to actually click on them.