Mental Lapse in Judgement

After reading a comment last night to Krudd's latest WDW update, the first thing I thought was that it had to be spam or a virus link. I quickly deleted the comment but copied the link location to see if I can find anything about it in Google. The address was just some random letters ending in blogspot.com but nothing came up in the search. In a what was I thinking moment I copied the link into my browser's location bar and fired away thinking that because I was using Firefox, it would somehow not affect my system. Nope. The browser's window immediately auto expanded to fill the screen and a fake Windows virus scan started chugging away. I quickly killed my session but I knew it was too late. Symantec's online virus scanner told me I had the W32.Spybot.Worm.

Afterwards, I had to install Symantec AntiVirus and run a full system scan to get rid of it. I never installed an antivirus program before because I hated the memory overhead and other inconveniences like auto-updates and security notices when installing applications. I still feel as long as you update your OS and don't go to unknown, shady sites and accept or click on unknown links, you should be fine though. Moments like these will make me appreciate my future Mac purchase even more.