This is the second time I've had a drive-by executable installed on my machine using the following:
Google Chrome 6 (latest)
Windows 7, UAC on
This happened while I was browsing for images to add to a gaming.se post; one of the sites I visited (to get an image of a transfer cable) must have had drive-by browser exploit code running.
UAC alerted me that a weird temporary executable wanted to run, and I declined, but I still got the fake antivirus executable running on my machine. Sigh..
I do have Java installed because I upload stuff monthly to clearbits.net and their uploader is a Java plugin. So my best guess is, websites are doing drive-by installs using the massive numbers of zero-day vulnerabilities in the Java browser plugins.
For now, I have uninstalled Java, which works. But I wondered if I could disable the Java plugin in Google Chrome instead.
So, how do you disable these vulnerable plugins in Google Chrome? I can't find the UI.