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'.

Comments

Actually

[CaptainZapp]

You can cough up 30$ a year (50$ for 2) and enjoy Salon in its entirety and completely ad-free.

I'm aware, that this doesn't necessarily sit well with a lot of people here, but wtf...

Re:Actually

[benjymous]

Or just install Mozilla which has pretty decent popup prevention (i.e. it still allows the popups that result from a user click, but not the ones that pages generate on load/exit/etc)

Ad-aware

[DeadSea]

Ad-aware is a Windows program from Lavasoft that will remove spyware from your computer. It is freeware. There is also a plus version available for a fee that will run in the background and prevent spyware from being installed.

Re:Microsoft, security and Java...

[Rogerborg]

• 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.

Yeah, I posted it elsewhere, but it bears repeating that the "Microsoft® virtual machine (Microsoft VM)" is not a Java Virtual Machine (JVM, the old name), and Microsoft are no longer allowed to call it that after being bitchslapped around a few courts by Sun. Let's keep the Microsoft VM and the Sun JRE clear and distinct in our minds.