hummingbird wrote:

> 'Beauregard T. Shagnasty' wrote:
>> hummingbird wrote:
>>> [HEALTH WARNING]
>>> If you switch off all your security s/w and surf to this website,
>>> see what happens: xxx.pricelessware.org
>
>> Ok, I did. I see a ~1995-coding-style web site with many lists of
>> free Windows software. What was supposed to happen?
>
> Well, several months ago, if you had no security running that website
> was discreetly transferring you to a URL based in HK and downloading
> a trojan onto your system and running it to take you over. A recent
> poster reported a similar problem only a coupla days ago on ACF. I
> believe a malicious a-frame was installed by hackers. Much debate
> here about it on ACF at the time.

So that was a Windows trojan then? Ok, I understand. To become
infected, you probably needed to be using a Windows OS, probably
Internet Explorer, probably allowing ActiveX, probably don't have
patches to stop malicious iframe redirection (which is quite common on
hacked sites). [I guess you meant iframe, rather than a-frame.]

> After I got hit by it, I added the URL into my HOSTS file to prevent
> myself ever going there again in error.

If you got hit by this trojan, then which of the above were you not
securing yourself from? Windows/IE/ActiveX/patches/iframes ?

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