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Malware: One Victim's Story
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:29:18 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via InformationWeek. [snip] When you have spinal and liver cancer, computer infections are the least of your worries. But even the least of worries can diminish your quality of life. Tim, a resident of Aberdeen, Wash., just wanted to play some online games, his friend Sharon explained over the phone on Tuesday. Sharon provided her last name and address, but asked that it not be published because Tim and she are dealing with identity theft, in addition to cancer. Tim, she explained, saw a TV ad for an online bingo site, bigtimebingo.net, while watching Fox News recently. Upon visiting the site, Tim lost control of his computer. "My friend loves online games," said Sharon. "I'm always telling him to be careful. But when you see it advertised on TV, you figure it's safe." Tim had been redirected to malware-alarm dot com, one of several variant Web domains associated with the MalwareAlarm rogue antivirus software. The site receives 31,147 unique U.S. monthly visitors, according to Quantcast. [snip] More: http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206503983 Despicable. - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHtmaaq1pz9mNUZTMRApg6AKDMvgOiJoR7w3yos4LwOE8dW1tP6ACgwfwh d2K5KE85qBYX6Lz4ub8OvvA= =l8Yb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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