Virus

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 14:53 -0700, alan wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 08:12 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> >> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Karl Larsen wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>    I just got a windows virus. It looks like this:
> >>>>
> >>>> *eBay Security Center *
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> ... snip ...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>    It is very clean and sure looks official. Even has a Email ID :-)
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> in that case, i'd run that baby.  crossover office.  vmware.  kvm.
> >>> the possibilities are endless, karl.  go for it.
> >>>
> >>> rday
> >>>
> >>     I followed the thing you click and it's a odd web page that will
> >> take your E-Bay name and password if you give it. So more Scam than
> >> Virus it appears.
> > WELL YOU LIKE TO LIVE DANGEROUSLY. NEVER CLICK ON A VIRUS WEB PAGE. WEB
> > BROWSERS CAN COLLECT THE ADDRESSES OF PEOPLE WHO GO TO THE WEB SITE,
> > SO YOU ARE ALREADY COMPROMISED.
> 
> Please turn off your capslock key.  It makes you look foolish.
> 
> Web browsers do not collect anything.  Web _servers_ might.
> 
> If any e-mail address was revealed, it was of the guy who posted it.  If 
> it had tried to infect my system it would have gone into the collection of 
> other Windows rootkits.  (I can always use more.) Lynx is your friend.
You are right it is web servers that collect addresses. However I kept
the caps lock key on purpose since opening a phish web site is a silly
thing to do and I wanted to emphasize that. To subtle I guess.

> 
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