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Message-ID: <BAY23-F4r2UAaTzvb5Y0000f6cc@hotmail.com>
From: iamafraud at hotmail.com (Geraldo Rivera)
Subject: Spyware installs with no interaction in IE on fully
patched XP SP2 box
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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