Clams Canino wrote:

:"RG" wrote in message news:6OVZg.8763

: Possible, but more likely that you visited a website that just dumped a
:load
: of crap on you. It can happen in nearly an instant when visiting a
: malicious website. Been there.

:Forgive me.. but I was unnaware that a website (alone) could give you
:anything (but cookies)without you agreeing to download or enable "something
r other". As far as I know there's no such thing as an HTML virus or worm.


There are a large number of exploits that take advantage of bugs in
web browsers to do nasty things. They're mostly, but not entirely,
confined to Internet Explorer. Most of them turn up as "zero-day"
exploits, meaning that malicious use of them is being made when
security researchers announce their existence. The Windows operating
system itself has any number of remote exploits in it; some of these
could be used by a website.

David