eBay service hit by malware

Auctiva, a service "to help expedite the eBay listing process", was attacked by malware. In their online community Message Boards, they posted...

"...some of our machines were injected with malware originating in China...

"...if you did visit our site between Thursday evening and Saturday afternoon at about 2 PM PT, as a precautionary measure, we recommend taking the following actions to ensure that your computers are not infected:
1) Clear your browser cache, delete ALL temporary internet files, and restart your browser.
2) If using a Windows machine, make sure you are updated with all the current Microsoft updates and patches.
3) Make sure you are running some reputable antivirus software (AVG is available for free at http://free.avg.com and is known to catch this malware)
4) Use the Firefox browser if possible, as it has been shown to be less susceptible to this sort of malware than Internet Explorer.

What I find VERY interesting, is they never mentioned it via Twitter...

the Flash/Firefox bug

(As usual, I have been thinking: "Maybe it's me...")

...Flash videos don't play for certain Firefox 3 users on Windows XP or Vista, when using the current Flash player version 9...Both Mozilla and Adobe have been aware of the issue since late May, but as yet no solution has been found...One workaround solution is to install the Flash 10 player, which is still in beta...Flash 9 works just fine in Internet Explorer.

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Why I still prefer Internet Explorer

"...you would be mad not to test your HTML / CSS / Javascript creation in each and every one...Open standards are good and important...until every browser somehow manages to interpret a massive and complicated standard specification in the exact same way, there is no such thing as perfect consistency...IE is getting it right."

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