RE: Popup security sales gimmick

["Greg van der Gaast" <greg.van.der.gaast () ordina nl>]

I agree, I don't think any of this is actually being displayed by the
web server itself. It just loads your local explorer within ie. The fact
that I can view 20mb image files in a few seconds on a 28.8 connection
makes it pretty obvious that I'm not receiving the data from the site.
Nice for fud, maybe there's some way of using this to trick people into
sending over data. As always, clue is the cure.

Regards,

Greg 

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: netsec novice [mailto:netsec9 () hotmail com] 
Verzonden: Saturday, December 28, 2002 3:54 AM
Aan: security-basics () securityfocus com
Onderwerp: Popup security sales gimmick

I ran into this popup and initially it concerned me.  I thought I would
post 
it here for confirmation on its validity.  It appears to me that this
site 
runs a script that simply displays your c: drive contents rather than 
actually being able to obtain the information.  I could see how it could

scare some people though.

Check it out for yourself.
http://www.interneteraser.com/error.html



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