Most common question

Lately the most common problem that I run into is the Smitfraud malware infection. Check out Maleware, Spyware, and Viruses OH MY! to learn a bit more about this particular baddie. Along with this bit of malware infecting everybody from children to grandparents nobody seems to know how they got it. They all say the same thing. "it just appeared".

Well folks I can finally shed just a little more light on the subject. Yesterday I was surfing to one of my favorite social networking sites when out of nowhere a window pops up and says...
Now what most people seem to do at this point is simply click "OK" so they can keep doing what they were doing, but that is obviously the WORST thing you could do at this point. Even clicking "Cancel" these days can still get you in a world of hurt. The best recommendation is to do the following:
1. look down in your task bar, and locate the program you're using to browse the web. It's most likley either Internet Explorer or Firefox. Right click it and choose "close".
2. If 1 didn't work press the CTRL, ALT, and Delete keys all at the same time. in XP the Task Manager will open, if you're running Vista choose Task Manager from the list. In the Task Manager look for either IEXPLORE.EXE or FIREFOX.EXE, once you've found it right click on it and choose "End Process Tree" this should close any open browsers.

If you keep seeing the same pop up, stop going to that site. At least for a few days. The problem is that this piece of malware is most likely coming through an ad of some kind. Once the site realizes the ad they'll remove it, or it will rotate out of their site on it's own.

Good luck!