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Re: New Trojan?
From: "Michael Painter" <tvhawaii () shaka com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 11:16:30 -1000
I'd try things without the Netgear box...or maybe try resetting/unplugging it? --Michael ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff" <Jeff@Not_A_Real_Address.com> To: <security-basics () securityfocus com> Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 9:14 AM Subject: New Trojan?
PLEASE READ ... I feel violated and need much help, if not for the PC, for my nerves. The PC is a WinXP box, fully patched, routinely checked with Spybot 1.3 and AdAware 6. I run SpywareBlaster as well. I also use Thunderbird 0.6 and Firefox 0.8. All other family members run Thunderbird on this box. IE6 has not bee removed but is fully patched. Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition 9.0, AV file 6/25/2004 r19 is running. (I purposely purchased the licenses at work for our home users also so that they WOULD stay up to date -- a practice I learned from Sprint a long, long time ago.) I use a Netgear FVS318 to interface to my Verizon DSL account. The events as they happened. 1. My son read his email via the web. It included e-cards. He read them. Doesn't remember where they took him, nor does he remember if he used IE6 or Firefox. 2. Long screaming session about things TO do and things NOT to do while on the internet. 278th time. Disabled his account. 3. Mis-typing a URL will now take me automatically to www.netidentity.com with the mistaken URL clearly identified inside. Identical results on IE6 and Firefox. Java and Javascript are disabled on Firefox. I leave IE6 alone because I use it when I absolutely must go to some bogus activex site, oh, and windowsupdate. But I don't use it otherwise. I always use Firefox. URLs that caused this include: mapblast, mapquest, abc, def ... through xyz. Please note: I had typed "mapblast" but had hit Enter rather than Ctrl-Enter, by mistake. The URLs entered are literally those listed, just the word. They are then transformed to http://mapblast/ 4. SAV CE, Spybot, AdAware, SypwareBlaster were all checked for updates and the entire system was scanned. Nothing found. ** My immediate thought was that Network Solutions was up to thier ** old tricks with it's Site Finder business. A quick check of ** another PC in the house eliminated that. 5. I checked my syslogs and NULL routed the IP address being used to access www.netidentity.com. The same page comes up sans the graphics and the flash. The web page is still there though, just looking sad. Another check of the syslogs brings up 64.15.175.5 as generating the pages, an open proxy. 6. Also ran HiJackThis and went through ALL of the items on it. Nada. Couldn't find the IP addresses or domain names in the registry. I also ran them in reverse notation. Nada. 7. Checked my network settings to make certain that some new DNS server wasn't stuck in. Nope, still set to use the Netgear box. Put 4 different DNS servers in -- still get that stupid site. 8. That was all at lunchtime. Haven't had a chance to run netstat or Ethereal to gain any additional clues. ZOIKS!!! The PC is off. But NOT knowing what is going on is driving me insane. So while I <ahem> work this afternoon, I thought I would see if any of this sounds, smells or <insert fav sense here) like anything that anyone has seen before! Jeff --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ethical Hacking at the InfoSec Institute. Mention this ad and get $545 off any course! All of our class sizes are guaranteed to be 10 students or less to facilitate one-on-one interaction with one of our expert instructors. Attend a course taught by an expert instructor with years of in-the-field pen testing experience in our state of the art hacking lab. Master the skills of an Ethical Hacker to better assess the security of your organization. Visit us at: http://www.infosecinstitute.com/courses/ethical_hacking_training.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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