Re: Please tell me I'm wrong: microsoft.com infected

[Benjamin Franz <snowhare () nihongo org>]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Steve Cody wrote:

> I just went to http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage, and my Symantec
> Norton Antivirus popped up and denied access to readme.eml.
>
> I could not view the source of the loaded page, so I can't verify that
> it is definitely infected.

> From the bottom of the page served from that URL:

window.open("readme.eml", null, "resizable=no,top=6000,left=6000")

I would call that a definite "Yes".

-- 
Benjamin Franz

  Programs must be written for people to read, and only
  incidentally for machines to execute.
                             ---Abelson and Sussman



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