full-disclosure - Re: browser exploit web sites

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Message-id: <472F629B.9673.44C8DA1B@nick.virus-l.demon.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:36:11 +1300
From: Nick FitzGerald <nick@...us-l.demon.co.uk>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: browser exploit web sites

Geo. wrote:

> and you get a ton of websites hosting browser exploits being used to infect 
> computers. setup.exe and a bunch of other crapola. Some of them seemed 
> pretty clever. Nothing new just figured I'd pass on the search info in case 
> anyone was researching these.

I didn't look real hard or at many of the search result pages, but I 
didn't see any exploits involved in this -- just your typical "use JS 
to (quite realistically) fake an online scan of the machine then push 
an installer .EXE" bogus anti-[adware|malware|spyware|virus] sites.

Regards,

Nick FitzGerald

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