When a user clicks on the hyperlink in the spam to view their video, they're instead sent to another IP address, where the Q4rollup exploit (a collection of about a dozen encrypted exploits) checks to see if you're fully patched against all the security vulnerabilities the exploits target. If you're unpatched anywhere, you're hit with a driveby download that your AV or AS software is unlikely to catch.
Exactly. Spammers little bits of my time every day. I work in a business where a missed email means a missed client, so I can't afford to have a prospect's email deleted by the spam filter. I use spam filters, but they're far from perfect. Lock him up and then let my spam filter lose the key.
I attended the Tiecon conference and was genuinely impressed when I met the "founders" at their booth.
These aren't "beauty pagent" kids forced to perform like show animals by overbearing stage moms.
The kids struck me as genuine, social and emotionally balanced. The drive and spirit for this is coming from them.
I think all great entrepreneurs must preserve some measure of child-like curiosity and creativity. I say kudos to their parents for encouraging such creative expression.
No, what the Washington Post was reporting wasn't a virus. It was an exploit that attempted to install a driveby downloaded keylogger. What you're seeing at Webmaster World is interesting, but probably unrelated.
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When a user clicks on the hyperlink in the spam to view their video, they're instead sent to another IP address, where the Q4rollup exploit (a collection of about a dozen encrypted exploits) checks to see if you're fully patched against all the security vulnerabilities the exploits target. If you're unpatched anywhere, you're hit with a driveby download that your AV or AS software is unlikely to catch.
Exactly. Spammers little bits of my time every day. I work in a business where a missed email means a missed client, so I can't afford to have a prospect's email deleted by the spam filter. I use spam filters, but they're far from perfect. Lock him up and then let my spam filter lose the key.
I attended the Tiecon conference and was genuinely impressed when I met the "founders" at their booth. These aren't "beauty pagent" kids forced to perform like show animals by overbearing stage moms. The kids struck me as genuine, social and emotionally balanced. The drive and spirit for this is coming from them. I think all great entrepreneurs must preserve some measure of child-like curiosity and creativity. I say kudos to their parents for encouraging such creative expression.
No, what the Washington Post was reporting wasn't a virus. It was an exploit that attempted to install a driveby downloaded keylogger. What you're seeing at Webmaster World is interesting, but probably unrelated.
The story isn't about viruses. It's about exploits. See the blog post from the security researcher at Exploit Prevention Labs who discovered this: http://explabs.blogspot.com/2007/04/google-sponsor ed-links-not-safe.html
The technology is out there for Google to prevent this.