***VIRUS WARNING***Large-Scale Attack Hits Thousands of Web Sites NAME: Download.Ject/Scob

[iamme]

whew, scan shows nothing on my pc.

thanks for the heads up!

 

[Regs]

I disabled active x a long time ago in IE.

 

[OrganizedChaos]

yay for mozilla! I<3 open source and the geeks that write it

 

[civad]

Use Mozilla....simple enough.

Better still, use Mozilla w/Linux

 

[Muadib]

Originally posted by: iamme
whew, scan shows nothing on my pc.

thanks for the heads up!

 

[Linux23]

i use both IE and Mozilla 1.7, but mainly started using Mozilla for most of my web browsing.

 

[cquark]

At least some of the compromised MS IIS web servers have a new admin account on them called IMAP_WWW.

 

[jadinolf]

Thanks for the info.

 

[Stark]

i can't believe how little attention this is getting. it's been a week and there's still no patch from ms.

I've completely disabled IE for all my citrix users and replaced it with mozilla. I've also installed mozilla or firefox on all the PCs I personally use. this is bad, really really bad and it doesn't seem like most people even know about it.

 

[SagaLore]

Thanks for this alert, I copied it to - (per your permission of course).

 

[gopunk]

patch is up

its on windows update too

 

[KokomoGST]

That was pretty fast... for M$.

A ton of people use Firefox now though. Nearly everyone I've told about it uses it now. Resistance is futile!

 

[straubs]

Unfortunately, the patch doesn't fix the actual flaw. It's a duct tape solution for the CURRENT exploit and I've already seen a working demo of how to re-exploit the same damn flaw. So yes, get the patch and if you are still using IE, feel somewhat safe for another couple days/weeks.

/begin rant

You know what the patch does? It changes a registry setting. That's IT! How many billions of dollars is microsoft making again? IE not updated from 6.0 in 4 years? World's economy mostly dependant on MS software?

Anyone see a problem here?

/end rant

 

[MadRat]

Perhaps if the U.S. feds say don't use IE then perhaps they should freeze XP shipments until a fix is released. Perhaps we ought to treat software like cars and make the manufacturers do recalls.

 

[tm37]

Originally posted by: MadRat
Perhaps if the U.S. feds say don't use IE then perhaps they should freeze XP shipments until a fix is released. Perhaps we ought to treat software like cars and make the manufacturers do recalls.

Well this is nice BUT if you get a virus you ain't gonna die.

This is exactly the reason some IT guys are pricks about personal web browsing