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RE: New Trojan?


From: Raj <aquarajb () yahoo com>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 04:21:21 -0700 (PDT)

Hi jeff

Well few weeks back i was infected too, whenever i
mistype the url IE led me to Incredfind.net, i tried
all sort of things but the tools never helped me out,
so i found a few suspicious files by manaul search in
my temp folder, while examining the files i found that
it had installed a exe file in the system folder, and
it has maded changes in the windows registry like
"Blog.Incrid*.*" so manually i deleted the entires
made by it in the registry and atlast my computer is 
disinfected from that Blog

so now you manually disinfect your machine 

bye

Raj


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff [mailto:Jeff@Not_A_Real_Address.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 1:15 PM
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
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





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