swordofmoonlight.com issue

[Holy_Diver]

I've found reference to the above sites being used with the Redkit exploit to spread malicious script through Java or an Adobe Reader exploit. There's some info on how it works here. But if I understand correctly, it means SoM.com may have been hacked to add script that forwards people to randomly generated malicious sites.

The ondailybasis link doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Any idea if these infected sites with a working omwi.html page are able to install/run anything on the computers that visit them. Presumably via Java?

I swear I don't know why the hell I even have Java installed anymore. The updates are annoying, but it seems like every time I go and uninstall it within not long I find myself having to install it for some reason. For reasons I can't even recall

This is why browsers should probably not even have plugins. If you can't do it with Javascript or equivalent then it just shouldn't be done. I mean why the hell can a PDF file be made to install and run things? That's nuts. Can't we at least be safe from media formats