[72437] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (william(at)elan.net)
Mon Jul 12 08:52:35 2004
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 05:54:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <40F27E3A.7080305@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, William Warren wrote:
> coolwebsearch has become more and more sneaky..so bad that
> development of cws shredder has been abandoned by its
> developer....Either serious lock down you ie(which with CWS is
> not going to help) or use something other than ie.
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/8998
"Jun 28 2004 7:38AM
US CERT (the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team), is advising people to
ditch Internet Explorer and use a different browser after the latest
security vulnerability in the software was exposed"
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622344,00.asp
"July 12, 2004
In the wake of last week's revelation of a security hole in Mozilla that
allows the execution of arbitrary programs on the client system a
philosophical debate has emerged: Is this a bug in Mozilla or a bug in
Windows?"
--
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william@elan.net
