Trojan exploits unpatched IE flaw

The Register ^ | 1 December 2005 | John Leyden

[ShadowAce]

Beware of where you surf.

[ShadowAce]

[GermanBusiness]

How do you disable active scripting?

[TexasCajun]

... infect unprotected Windows users who stray onto maliciously constructed websites

Porn at your own Risk!

[Xenophobic Alien]

Use Firefox

[Danae]

Use Mozilla Firefox.

[Danae]

YOU BEAT ME!!!

KAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!

[N3WBI3]

;)

[frankiep]

Agreed. IE sucks when compared to Firefox.

[Cicero]

How to Disable Active Content in Internet Explorer:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q154036/

I'm not sure if I would do this, as it will affect your ability to use some sites. Also, if you decide to disable scripting, make a note of what you do so you can undo it after installing the patch.

[VOA]

bump

[petro45acp]

"... infect unprotected Windows users who stray onto maliciously constructed websites

Porn at your own Risk!"

Not just porn. Warez sites tend to be buggy, some newsgroups(age showing), and chat programs can be vectors for the malware.

Opera, Mozilla, Flock (beta), Firefox, and others may not be a bad idea till proprietary Internet Explorer hole (PIEHOLE) gets closed.

Top sends

[petro45acp]

"One needs to be careful when one calls the dragon!..."

[zeugma]

Not just porn. Warez sites tend to be buggy, some newsgroups(age showing), and chat programs can be vectors for the malware.

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This type of attack isn't very effective against most people who don't go to such sites. It could be extremely dangerous though, if someone incorporated it into a hack of a legitimate site. I'd asses the danger of this defect to be low risk, but MS should put out a patch promptly to protect their customers.

[ShadowAce]

This type of attack isn't very effective against most people who don't go to such sites.

True, but it still affects those of us who don't go to those sites, by zombifying those who do. Those zombies then send out attacks/spam/etc to everyone else.

[zeugma]

True, but it still affects those of us who don't go to those sites, by zombifying those who do. Those zombies then send out attacks/spam/etc to everyone else.

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Good point. This is really the only reason I care about windows viruses/worms. If it couldn't affect me, I would just let folks suffer in ingnorance of alternatives. Well... maybe not, but I'd think about it.;-)

[ShadowAce]

Check out Explorer Destroyer

[tubebender]

FIREFOX is causing me a problem when I go to the NewsMax site and link on a story I get a giant Pop Up of many thumbnails. It doesn't get it in Safari or Netscape...

[ShadowAce]

Hmm. I don't get that. I went to NewsMax and clicked on the first story listed. No pop-ups. Just the story.

So--Have you checked your preferences for pop-ups in Firefox?
Tools-->Options-->Content and there is a checkbox for "Block pop-up windows" or something similar. Be sure that it is checked.

If it is checked, click on the "Allowed Sites" button ext to it, and see if you have any entries in there. If not, then my next step would be to run Spybot, Ad-aware, etc to clean up your system.

Let me know if that works or not. I'm interested to see what happens.

[tubebender]

Pop Ups are blocked with no exceptions. I cleared Cookies and Cache while I was there...