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To: eraser2005

Be careful about linking to his website. There has been information coming out about trojans and viruses, especially to Israeli websites.


7 posted on 08/16/2006 11:39:45 AM PDT by BigFinn
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To: BigFinn

Thanks for the warning, but from Symantec:

"We at Symantec Security Response have investigated this issue thoroughly and can find no indication of malicious code being present on that nor on the www.ahmadinejad.ir landing page that triggered the alert.

We believe what happened was that an IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) signature in Norton Personal Firewall triggered an alert on the www.khamenei.ir website due to HTML code on that page that must be present to exploit the MS IE DragDrop Embed Code vulnerability. Upon investigation, it appears that while the code in this case is harmless, its presence was suspicious enough to trigger an alert. Additionally, this issue is not limited to Israel, as we were able to reproduce the issue ourselves.
We have taken steps to modify the IPS signature which was causing this alert to appear and the updates will be available shortly. In the meantime, we recommend that all user ensure that their software, such as browsers and operating systems, are fully patched and their security software up to date with the latest updates and definitions."


12 posted on 08/16/2006 11:44:44 AM PDT by eraser2005
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