[pdolo]

Last night I clicked on a video clip from this week's SNL show on the NBC.com site, immediately my computer was bombarded with multiple safari (which I was using at the time), unison, email, terminal and ichat windows opening silmultaneously, all trying to open or send racist/adult content or comments.

I have an iMac, running the latest versions of OS 10.5, safari, Intego virusbarrier and netbarrier.

Needless to say I was shocked. I quickly unplugged my airport extreme and then tried to click closed/quit all the apps and windows constatnly opening. After a minute I gave up and tuned off my computer.

I've looked around online and there has been a couple of youtube vids of hacks to the nbc site, but none looked like what happened to my computer.

Has anyone else experienced similar problems? Advice? I thought these things couldn't happen on a Mac?



Thanks

[jobynad]

I think it could be some HTML that opened all the windows.
It could also be some hack that a hacker put on it
Yes, I have had a similar problem except it was on http://abc.go.com/.

[sparx]

It doesn't sound like a virus.

It does sound like a script. The most likely possibilities are that the site you accessed was hacked or that the DNS you use was hacked/spoofed, or that there was some sort of cross-site scripting vulnerability. When you're on a Mac those are the only likely possibilities.

You can deal with the possibility that the DNS was compromised by using a reliable third-party DNS service instead of the DNS service from your Internet service provider. I like OpenDNS myself, but none are completely invulnerable.

You can deal with the possibility that your browser ran an unauthorized script by using a browser like Firefox with script-blocking software like NoScript. Does anyone know of a script-blocking plug-in for Safari?

- Mike