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Re: New piece of spyware?
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 16:16:29 -0400
On Fri, 14 May 2004 02:04:24 -0000, caldcv () students fccj org said:
I have a Windows Server 2003 machine. Lately, I noticed on my mIRC IRC client that something is pasting out ads to the current window.
[14:40] <nickname> New threat exploits flaw in Internet Explorer - http://www
.addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&type=news&ID=2039 , please support the m by clicking the GOOGLE AD inside the articles on the right. OK.. now for the $64 question - was it *your* client sending those ads *out*, or were you just on an IRC channel that had a bot that sent ad messages to everybody on the channel?
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- Re: New piece of spyware? Valdis . Kletnieks (May 13)
- RE: New piece of spyware? Charles Tholen (May 13)
- Re: Re: New piece of spyware? Andrew Smith (May 14)
- Re: New piece of spyware? Harlan Carvey (May 13)
- RE: New piece of spyware? Rob Shein (May 13)
- Re: New piece of spyware? Rob (May 14)
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- Re: New piece of spyware? caldcv (May 14)
- Re: New piece of spyware? Mister Coffee (May 14)
- Dead Thread: New piece of spyware? Daniel Hanson (May 14)
- Solegg ? David Gillett (May 14)
- Re: Solegg ? Pieter (May 14)
- Re: New piece of spyware? Mister Coffee (May 14)