Jerry
Thu October 2nd,2003, 04:10 PM
Oct. 2, 2003
Security experts say a Trojan horse directed traffic from popular Web sites to an IP address designated by the attacker.
By Gregg Keizer, TechWeb News
Vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser have been exploited again, security experts said on Thursday, this time by a Trojan horse that redirected traffic from more than 100 popular Web sites to an IP address designated by the attacker.
The Trojan, dubbed Qhosts and Delude.B by various anti-virus vendors, redirected traffic on compromised machines from a large number of legitimate sites--primarily search engines, among them those found at AltaVista, Google, Lycos, MSN, and Yahoo. According to Computer Associates, requests to surf to those search sites were shunted instead to a Web site that was taken offline within 24 hours of the Trojan's appearance. Read More.... (http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=15201154)
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Security experts say a Trojan horse directed traffic from popular Web sites to an IP address designated by the attacker.
By Gregg Keizer, TechWeb News
Vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser have been exploited again, security experts said on Thursday, this time by a Trojan horse that redirected traffic from more than 100 popular Web sites to an IP address designated by the attacker.
The Trojan, dubbed Qhosts and Delude.B by various anti-virus vendors, redirected traffic on compromised machines from a large number of legitimate sites--primarily search engines, among them those found at AltaVista, Google, Lycos, MSN, and Yahoo. According to Computer Associates, requests to surf to those search sites were shunted instead to a Web site that was taken offline within 24 hours of the Trojan's appearance. Read More.... (http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=15201154)
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As I keep on saying get and download Mozilla to gain control of your internet expericence at http://www.mozilla.org