Earthstation 5 Claimed to be Malware

Rob from RPI writes "You may remember the announcement about a company, or program, or both called Earthstation 5 who recently 'Declared War' on the MPAA. Well guess what? Turns out that it's got code in it that allows anyone to delete any file on your computer. I suggest that you un-install as soon as possible!"

Comments

Geocites eh?

[Anonymous Coward]

Because the link is on geocities it's sure to be /.'d in 23 milliseconds. Here is a mirror I put up with the bin and src.
Don't trust code from sources you don't know. I only provide these for the inevitable geocities /.ing

Unconfirmed, as of yet.

[caferace]

This came across the FD list yesterday afternoon. Typically, an announcement of this type would elicit a fair amount of discussion. Usually at leat *one* other person would have confirmed it, or at least rebutted the claim.

As of this writing, I haven't seen a single follow-up post.

Is it true? I don't know, Is it a hoax? I don't know that either. It has more than a few caveats about using the exploit, that's for sure.

What I do know is that that Geocities site with the exploit code will disappear bandwidth constrained faster than snot. :)

Heres the trojan code

[ghost1]

Link to Zeropaid discussion with the actual code http://www.zeropaid.com/news/articles/auto/1002200 3i.php

Re:Tinfoil alarm!

[LizardKing]

Please check your history before you post. The Palestinians did not come into existence until 16 years after the British handed over 1/3 of what the UN resolution required to form present-day Israel.

That's either amazing ignorance you've got there, or just the most blatant bit of lying I've seen on Slashdot for days. The "protectorate" of Palestine existed between the two world wars, and was effectively a colony of the British Empire. Jewish immigration increased dramatically during this period, a result of increased interest in Zionism, itself largely a result of anti-Jewish activity in Europe.

Palestine may not have been an independent nation state, but the Palestinian people had existed as a distinct race since biblical times when the Semitic tribes split along religious grounds. Remember that Jews and Palestinians are both Semitic races.

Israel was created following the even bigger influx of Jewsih refugees after the Second World War. Many of these refugees brought bitter memories of the concenration camps with them, and a willingness to use force to gain a nation state. The British were unable to control the situation, having been effectively bankrupted by the war, and eventually pulled out after increased bombings of their official buildings, etc. The result was bloodshed, as the Jewish militias ehnically cleansed large parts of Palestine. Pretty ironic considering the background to the Jewish desire for a nation state.

Chris

Re:Now tell the bastards what you think!

[Anonymous Coward]

The *maintainer* of Earthstation V's domain record is fom Israel. I do not know what this signifies.

To see this, go here and click on the mnt-by ("maintained by") link.

person: Moshe Maimone
address: 63 Saudia Gaon
Hertzlya, Israel
phone: +39247585
nic-hdl: MM9905-RIPE
mnt-by: SPEEDNET-MNT
changed: Speednet@email.com 20030508
source: RIPE

person: Motti Oran
address: 25 Hasivin Street
Petach Tikva, Israel 49170
phone: +039247585
fax-no: +039247736
mnt-by: SPEEDNET-MNT
notify: speednet@email.com
e-mail: motti@speed-net.com
nic-hdl: MO2551-RIPE
changed: speednet@email.com 20030105
source: RIPE

RIAA/MPAA "honeypot"

[raresilk]

When Slashdot initially ran the Earthstation V article, I posted a warning that this looked an awful lot like an RIAA/MPAA "honeypot" to me. Everybody ignored me, because they were too busy giving high-fives to Earthstation for bravely taking on the RIAA, etc. Now we learn that Earthstation has exactly the "feature" the Content Mafia would put in a honeypot - the ability to delete content off of your machine. I guess all of us (or at least some of us) are as gullible as the Content Mafia think we are.