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> This is after not suffering _any_ attack, malware or otherwise, in all the years since XP came out, so I'm not terribly concerned.

Just curious, how do you know you haven't suffered any attack?



Because it would have to come through a vector that I haven't completely walled off, and those are exceedingly rare (like the WMF thing ages ago). I keep up on vulnerabilities, and I'd do a paranoia reinstall if I suspected I were affected by one.

It would be one of these:

* Noscript exploit

* Simultaneous Flashblock + Flash exploit

* Image-based exploit

* Renderer exploit

And those are extremely rare. My software stack is also pretty stable, and it's all from trustworthy vendors/projects.


You are clearly the typical XP+IE6 user being targeted by this campaign.




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