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Re: Interesting Occurrence

  • From: Mike Tancsa
  • Date: Mon Jun 21 14:32:21 2004


Not the best place to ask (full-discloure or the incidents list perhaps), but there are numerous phishing scams going of late (I get 3 or 4 a day) that exploit an unpatched IE bug....

e.g. the spam reads

You Have a VoiceMessage Waiting Priority :Urgent From:xxx xxx http://www.ONEvoicemailbox.net/voicemail/

(replace ONE with "1" in the host)-- I strongly suggest NOT going to this site with IE

This particular site crams in a keylogger into your PC by use of
http://221.4.203.78/bestadult/shellscript_loader.js
http://221.4.203.78/bestadult/shellscript.js


---Mike


At 01:44 PM 21/06/2004, [email protected] wrote:

Okay... Here is a new one for me. Got a call from my dad saying he left his PC on last night connected to his broadband. He went to log in this morning and noticed a new ID in his user list - IWAP_WWW. He immediately deleted is and called me. I had him ensure his critical updates we all applied - they were. I had him ensure his antivirus was up to date - it was (Norton Antivirus 2004). He is running XP Home.

I searched the antivirus sites and elsewhere for references. Any idea if there is a new vulnerability that has not been publicly released? Any clues?

Regards,
Brent