Experts Study Developing Internet Attack

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  1. ronjor

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    CHICAGO (AP) - Government and industry experts warned late Thursday of a mysterious, large-scale Internet attack against thousands of popular Web sites. The virus-like infection tries to implant hacker software onto the computers of all Web site visitors.

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    ronjor, Jun 24, 2004
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    nick s, Jun 24, 2004
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    Damn, this looks bad. I hope that the next NOD32 update covers this crap... it better come awful soon...

    BTW, does using Mozilla, Opera, or other "alternative" browsers provide any degree of protection?
     
    Pigman, Jun 24, 2004
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    Ran the the url in the script through Opera and got this:

    Illegal address
    url:ms-its:C:\WINDOWS\Help\iexplore.chm::/iegetsrt.htm

    I'll wait a while and try it with IE.

    Nick
     
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    Javascript is used here. Easy enough to disable but destroys some of the perks.
     
    ronjor, Jun 24, 2004
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    My defense arsenal is loaded and ready...
     
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    Mine isn't, but then again, I'm not running an IIS webserver :D :cool:
     
    meneer, Jun 25, 2004
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    meneer, Jun 25, 2004
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  9. Pigman

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    Hmm... Script Defender intercepts Javascript, doesn't it?
     
    Pigman, Jun 25, 2004
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  10. justhelping

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    Not in this case.
     
    justhelping, Jun 25, 2004
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