Trojans and Popups and Slimeball Business

Selanit writes "Salon.com is reporting on a company which exploited a vulnerability in an old but common version of Internet Explorer's Java engine to install spyware on the visitor's machine. " It's a pretty in depth story showing the lack of respect that some companies have. My favorite part is that the guy who denies any knowledge of the trojan popup is named 'Frank Bigott'.

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Ah, the irony

[Faust7]

I love how the article is titled "The Pop-Up Ad Campaign from Hell"--and you get a pop-up when you first visit it. Also a nice Flash ad delay when you hit Back. Yep.

Microsoft, security and Java...

[MosesJones]

Isn't it odd that the only Java security exploit to be used in the wild is in the VM produced by Microsoft that didn't obey the Java spec.

Now a cynical person would say that this would enable Microsoft to point at Java and say "Java is insecure" but of course I'm not a cynical person and I'm sure it was purely an accident.

Re:Microsoft, security and Java...

[knulleke]

I wonder if it's in the specs that java must be slow. It seems to be implemented that way on all platforms.

Re:Not a good day for M$ on Slashdot

[spencerogden]

Please define: A Good day for M$ on Slashdot.

Re:How Exactly

[ThePilgrim]

Sir,

With refrence to your order CR12345778092

We are sorry to tell you that your order is in a holding queue.

As you will be aware all transactions require the primaries signiture signed in triplicate in BLOOD.

Unfortunatly you seam to have taken this to mean the blood of any conviniant human near by.

We require the signature to be in your blood.

We are sorry for the delay this missunderstanding has caused and look forward to taking possession of your soul at the earlist.

Yours,

B. L. Z. Bub

Head of Customour Resources

Hell

Big-Boo-TAY

[burgburgburg]

It's John Big-Boo-TAY!!!

A good day for microsoft would be:

[pommiekiwifruit]

404: This page not available.

Re:Not a good day for M$ on Slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

A Good day for MS on /. : Any day that there is no MS related news.

M$ bought by VA Software

[Tharsis]

although, I admit, all preceding days would have to be pretty bad.

Re:LA Based ? CPC 502 applies

[dattaway]

By "put away," what methods are you suggesting?

Prison?
Concrete shoes?
In the trunk of a car?
Handcuffed to the floor in a crack house?

Sounds good, but could you be more specific?

Re:Block Flowgo at SMTP

[Anonymous Coward]

Heh..
you could always change it to forward all emails from their domain to the administrative address for their domain. Make them read their own spam =)

Just in case Slashdot gets slashdotted!!

[Anonymous Coward]

from the remember-when-the-net-was-polite dept.

Selanit writes "Salon.com is reporting on a company which exploited a vulnerability in an old but common version of Internet Explorer's Java engine to install spyware on the visitor's machine. " It's a pretty in depth story showing the lack of respect that some companies have. My favorite part is that the guy who denies any knowledge of the trojan popup is named 'Frank Bigott'.

Re:Block Flowgo at SMTP

[Fizyx]

>"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." -- Lord Acton

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power is actually pretty cool." -- Tom Clancy (The Bear and the Dragon)

Re:Ad-aware

[Schrodinger's Mouse]

Hear, hear. I've got it running on my parents' Winbox, and whenever I mooch^H^H^H^H^Hvisit I have it clear out all the piggybacking crap my teenaged brother installs. It's a nice little program. Now if only it could knock some sense into the kid...