From: mandreko at ori.net (Matt Andreko)
Subject: Spyware installs with no interaction in IE
 on fully patched XP SP2 box

I was unable to verify it, since I don't use IE, and would prefer not 
infecting myself on accident, however I did run across this:

http://themexp.org/about_wrap.php

Perhaps one of the themes you downloaded was bundled with the spyware?



Geraldo Rivera wrote:
> themexp.org
> 
> I should have logged all the files and reg entries I deleted, but it was 
> late at night and I wasn't really thinking about that at the time. I 
> just checked my IE history for some of the things I googled and I found 
> a bunch of them:
> 
> SahAgent.exe
> webrebates0.exe
> lu.dat
> preInsln.exe
> Systb.dll
> wupdater.exe
> eakrfu.exe
> wupdt.exe
> megasearch toolbar (www.megasearchbar.com)
> IEPlugin
> localnrd.dll
> multimpp.dll
> 
>> From: "Joel R. Helgeson" <joel@...geson.com>
>> To: "Geraldo Rivera" 
>> <iamafraud@...mail.com>,<full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Spyware installs with no interaction in 
>> IE on fully patched XP SP2 box
>> Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 14:13:52 -0500
>>
>> What was the site?
>>
>> Joel R. Helgeson
>> Director of Networking & Security Services
>> SymetriQ Corporation
>>
>> "Give a man fire, and he'll be warm for a day; set a man on fire, and 
>> he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Geraldo Rivera" 
>> <iamafraud@...mail.com>
>> To: <full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 1:16 PM
>> Subject: [Full-Disclosure] Spyware installs with no interaction in IE 
>> on fully patched XP SP2 box
>>
>>
>>> Last night I went to a site that I have been to on and off for years. 
>>> The page loaded and then in IE's status bar I saw something 
>>> suspicious: "installing components...atpartners.cab". I could not 
>>> close out of IE, and I could not kill the iexplorer.exe process. It 
>>> totally locked up and I had to reboot my machine. When my machine 
>>> came back up, I had at least 6 different pieces of spyware/adware on 
>>> my machine. IT took me almost 2 hrs to clean up. I manually deleted a 
>>> bunch of crap (stuff I had found through the run key in the registry, 
>>> suspicious processes running, suspicious files in the usual dir's, 
>>> and by searching for all files modified at the time this happened). 
>>> Even after all that, Ad-Aware found 143 entries (none were cookies, 
>>> mostly registry entries and a few dll's) and then Spybot found an 
>>> additional 2 registry entries.
>>>
>>> This machine is a fully patched XP SP2 box, with the default security 
>>> settings for IE's Internet Zone. Does anybody know what method this 
>>> crap could be using to install without any user interaction?
>>>
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>>
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