Re: Windows hosts file changing.

["Joshua Levitsky" <jlevitsk () joshie com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin Gerry" <poof1 () cox net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 4:01 AM
Subject: [Full-disclosure] Windows hosts file changing.


> Does -ANYBODY- know how it occurs?
>
> I've had this happen to a couple boxes of mine now...
>
> New one:
> --
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 66.40.16.131 livesexlist.com
> 66.40.16.131 lanasbigboobs.com
> 66.40.16.131 thumbnailpost.com

Perhaps a variant of the QHosts virus which just exploits an IE
vulnerability. Perhaps not even a "virus" per say. (It's kind of sketchy
anyways to call Qhosts a virus.) Perhaps a user got an email and clicked on
the URL and it sent them to a site that took advantage of their IE not being
patched.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.qhosts.html

http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100719.htm

The MS03-040 patch addresses this type of attack on a system.

-Josh

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Joshua Levitsky, MCSE, CISSP
System Engineer
Time Inc. Information Technology
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