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Microsoft's AntiSpyware Disabled by Spyware
Ruke writes "A trojan has targeted Microsoft's AntiSpyware program, deleting all files within the C:\Program Files\AntiSpyware folder, as well as logging keystrokes at several online banking sites." The good news is that it's a Trojan, so one still has to bother with running an attached file.
Preview here
Rock that crushes, Paper & Scissors that don't matter.
[Nelson] Ha Haa! [/Nelson]
Seriously, they had it coming. Microsoft needs to eat more of its own dog food.
Yes, nobody ever expected a trojan to attack a piece of free MS software. I mean, look at Outlook. And Internet Explorer.
And in other news - "Google" gaining marketshare with "PageRank" technology
Am I the only one who was humming the "Trojan Man" theme song while I read this?
They could have taken a working product, repackage it, only to have it compromised less than a month after their re-release.
Wait, nevermind.
I know it's immature but...
Let me be the first to say, PWN3D!!!1one!!1
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
In other news, Linux systems are vulnerable to a well placed blow by a hammer.
Hay! I take uxsecption to that coment!
Anyone have a link where I can download this at?
Literal? Come on - this reads worse than half of the AC posts in YRO. I hate playing the grammar nazi, but this was painful to read...
See what happens when you RTFA!!!
-David
Me fail english? That's unpossible!
Pretty Pictures!
are an ass....
You know it....
There must be a joke about being able to fix it by configuring bash in here somewhere...
How many people can read hex if only you and dead people can read hex?
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
A designer suit that never wrinkles or gets dirty, of course.
Freedom to fear. Freedom from thought. Freedom to kill.
I guess the War on Terror really is about freedom!
... thinking of Tim holding Gareth's stapler out the window when they heard this?
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
In another news, the CIA was considering using Micro$oft Antispyware to keep out North Korean spies.
Alas!
Irregardless, the article is written to be user orientated. ;)
I wasn't sure I knew that song, so I was sitting here asking myself "Do I know the Muffin Man - the Muffin Man, the Muffin man?..."
Turns out I do know that song.
"you have to consciously or unconsciously run the EXE to install the server side on your computer"
Damnit. I always knew my sleepwalking would get me in trouble some day...
SIERRA TANGO FOXTROT UNIFORM
No, bash is too slow for this - I use this firewall rule:
$IPTABLES -A INPUT -i any -p hammer --state BLOW -j DROP
that I think about how bad Trojan is for a name of a condom.
The artical was architected, you mean.
Honestly, did anyone NOT see this coming?
I jokingly predicted this exact situation in a post when they first released the beta of the app (though admittedly I thought it'd take a little bit longer before it was actually in the wild). Rest assured that it is only a matter of time before you see this in a non-trojan form that is automatically installed via an IE exploit delivered by some ad-serving company.
Microsoft's move of buying up and releasing an anti-malware application of their own is IMO nothing more than an attempt to improve public perception of their so-called efforts towards improving Windows security.
Amusingly enough, I believe it to also be an example of how much they simply don't get it and/or don't care -- the insecurity of the underlying OS is the direct cause of the probem, not the spyware.
No amount of anti-malware software targeting the effects (automatically installed spyware) of the problem (insecure OS/Web Browser) will have any positive impact because it's the problem itself that allows the effects to continue... and have enough power to take the anti-malware software and just turn it off.
If one of these apps seems to have a legitimate purpose...
Well, it does remove Microsoft software.
M$ when you want software really bad, we have really bad software.
So Long and Thanks for all the Fish.
Don't trust your PC to this Microsoft micro-trash. My crack team of security experts (my pet cat and a 5-year-old nephew who mentioned something about bug squashing at a Christmas gettogether) and I have developed malware detection and removal software that will kick any other anti-crap's hindquarters. Spending unheard of manhours (many of which were used to make late-night caffeine runs and failed attempts to get laid) over a span of nearly a week, my team and I developed a program that will secure your information technology from those evil evil hackers out on the big bad Internet. Now if your current ad removal system or firewall says my program is keylogging to send your credit card information to me, this is only because it's jealous. I suggest you remove other spyware removal tools and anti-virus programs as soon as possible!
I'd like to proffer the URL for my program now, but it would seem my host has mistakenly taken the site down for the moment. I intend to call them soon and have this terribly injust mistake rectified immediately.
On vit, on code et puis on meurt.