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Britney Kills your computer
Another internet worm was released through IRC networks. The worm is disguised as a .jpg picture named Britney.jpg from Angelfire. Whatever you do do not open britney links in Internet explorer.
An exploit taking advantage of holes in Internet Explorer along with Windows Media Player ensures the worm free passage to your computer, where it starts deleting system files and destroying the registry.
The effect of this is: no shortcuts work, no programs, except those already running will work. If mirc is running it will proceed by installing a script that announces the url to britney.jpg in all the channels you have joined. Some have mentioned that it even uploads sites.dat from your FlashFXP directory.
This is a worm your anti-virus didn't popup because it's a new one!!
Originally posted by {I}{K}{E}@27 October 2003 - 13:22
Britney Kills your computer
Another internet worm was released through IRC networks. The worm is disguised as a .jpg picture named Britney.jpg from Angelfire. Whatever you do do not open britney links in Internet explorer.
An exploit taking advantage of holes in Internet Explorer along with Windows Media Player ensures the worm free passage to your computer, where it starts deleting system files and destroying the registry.
The effect of this is: no shortcuts work, no programs, except those already running will work. If mirc is running it will proceed by installing a script that announces the url to britney.jpg in all the channels you have joined. Some have mentioned that it even uploads sites.dat from your FlashFXP directory.
This is a worm your anti-virus didn't popup because it's a new one!!Bitch, Bstd's !
Yes, that's exactly what happened to me.Originally posted by {I}{K}{E}@27 October 2003 - 13:22
Britney Kills your computer
Another internet worm was released through IRC networks. The worm is disguised as a .jpg picture named Britney.jpg from Angelfire. Whatever you do do not open britney links in Internet explorer.
An exploit taking advantage of holes in Internet Explorer along with Windows Media Player ensures the worm free passage to your computer, where it starts deleting system files and destroying the registry.
The effect of this is: no shortcuts work, no programs, except those already running will work. If mirc is running it will proceed by installing a script that announces the url to britney.jpg in all the channels you have joined. Some have mentioned that it even uploads sites.dat from your FlashFXP directory.
This is a worm your anti-virus didn't popup because it's a new one!!
Can a MOD removed the LInk HERE
There is a huge dfference brtween viewing and loading. you may not be able to view a website for 101 reasons, eg: microsoft does not support java any more, (it doesn't) but only loading to your machine can cause you trouble, visiting a website is analagous to looking through aOriginally posted by jfm+27 October 2003 - 07:29--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (jfm @ 27 October 2003 - 07:29)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Originally posted by jfm@27 October 2003 - 07:19
<!--QuoteBegin-DasScoot@27 October 2003 - 07:11
Sorry boys, but you're wrong. You CAN get a virus by going to a website with a .jpg extension.
See?
The code isn't in the jpeg, it's in the website.
Jeez, did you actually read that article?
Understand it?
Thought not!
window [/b][/quote]
JFM- I hate to tell ya this, but you're misinformed. simply opening a page, with the right (err...wrong kind of) scripts in it, CAN do harm, if the scripts are allowed to load. That's how so many of the IE "hijacker" malwares are installed, is by scripts imbedded inside the page. Hijackers go in, re-write registry entries, to whatever, and the user has no knowledge of what has happened (if they arent running appropriate protection) until the next time that they open up their browser, and their homepage has changed itself, starts acting funny, has recurring pop-ups from one particular site...or whatever.
I'm only using that as my example for this....there's a LOT more that scripts can do. For another example, that first run of the ILOVEYOU virus was installed by scripts within a site, as a self-executable file. No clicking, no do you wish to install this, nada, just go to the site and BOOM, ya got it. Oh and guess what? It's even more fun.....they can imbed these things into HTML emails too.
You are partially correct tho. The .jpg file in itself is harmless. But it's what's in the rest of the page that is harmful. But, on not loading the file onto your system? Sorry, gotta correct you on that one too. There's all kinds of copies of it in your temp internet folder, cache files, and folders that are hidden down inside the temp internet folder that cleaning it out, does NOT get rid of. A lot of scripts hide in those folders. hide out in the temp folder inside of windows directory also. It's not like looking through a window, your browser Loads the page, whenever it shows up on your screen....and there fore loads the scripts if you dont take countermeasures. Sometimes, even when you do take countermeasures.
What I hate are the reactive scripts. the ones that just sit there, and wait until you hit a different site, with code in it that it's programmed to react to. My example is (never could track the bastard down, had to format to get rid of it) one that anytime I went to yahoo, google, or any of the other big search engines, and/or used a search box- it would cause a porno pop-under (that I never could block with a pop-up stopper) and cause the original window to auto-refresh CONSTANTLY...making any other browser windows that were open not be able to be seen, because the original was going berserk. The script from that one is from coolwebsearch.com (which uses a very small pop-under window to install the script.) but be damned if I can tag where it sleeps on the infected system. Spybot and ad-aware couldnt find it, even tho coolwebsearch is one of the things that spybot looks for.
JFM- I hate to tell ya this, but you're misinformed. simply opening a page, with the right (err...wrong kind of) scripts in it, CAN do harm, if the scripts are allowed to load. That's how so many of the IE "hijacker" malwares are installed, is by scripts imbedded inside the page. Hijackers go in, re-write registry entries, to whatever, and the user has no knowledge of what has happened (if they arent running appropriate protection) until the next time that they open up their browser, and their homepage has changed itself, starts acting funny, has recurring pop-ups from one particular site...or whatever.Originally posted by darkewolf+30 October 2003 - 03:55--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (darkewolf @ 30 October 2003 - 03:55)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Originally posted by jfm@27 October 2003 - 07:29
Originally posted by jfm@27 October 2003 - 07:19
<!--QuoteBegin-DasScoot@27 October 2003 - 07:11
Sorry boys, but you're wrong. You CAN get a virus by going to a website with a .jpg extension.
See?
The code isn't in the jpeg, it's in the website.
Jeez, did you actually read that article?
Understand it?
Thought not!
There is a huge dfference brtween viewing and loading. you may not be able to view a website for 101 reasons, eg: microsoft does not support java any more, (it doesn't) but only loading to your machine can cause you trouble, visiting a website is analagous to looking through a
window
I'm only using that as my example for this....there's a LOT more that scripts can do. For another example, that first run of the ILOVEYOU virus was installed by scripts within a site, as a self-executable file. No clicking, no do you wish to install this, nada, just go to the site and BOOM, ya got it. Oh and guess what? It's even more fun.....they can imbed these things into HTML emails too.
You are partially correct tho. The .jpg file in itself is harmless. But it's what's in the rest of the page that is harmful. But, on not loading the file onto your system? Sorry, gotta correct you on that one too. There's all kinds of copies of it in your temp internet folder, cache files, and folders that are hidden down inside the temp internet folder that cleaning it out, does NOT get rid of. A lot of scripts hide in those folders. hide out in the temp folder inside of windows directory also. It's not like looking through a window, your browser Loads the page, whenever it shows up on your screen....and there fore loads the scripts if you dont take countermeasures. Sometimes, even when you do take countermeasures.
What I hate are the reactive scripts. the ones that just sit there, and wait until you hit a different site, with code in it that it's programmed to react to. My example is (never could track the bastard down, had to format to get rid of it) one that anytime I went to yahoo, google, or any of the other big search engines, and/or used a search box- it would cause a porno pop-under (that I never could block with a pop-up stopper) and cause the original window to auto-refresh CONSTANTLY...making any other browser windows that were open not be able to be seen, because the original was going berserk. The script from that one is from coolwebsearch.com (which uses a very small pop-under window to install the script.) but be damned if I can tag where it sleeps on the infected system. Spybot and ad-aware couldnt find it, even tho coolwebsearch is one of the things that spybot looks for. [/b][/quote]
Yeah scripts! But not something that really is a *.jpg
Shit I just clicked on that jpg link, at now my box aint right. I clicked and it did a clean install of XpPro with all updates, everythings working faster and it left $50 under my mouse.
Wicked
Whatever, about the 50 dollars part.
I agree with you there, that jpg files themselves are harmless. Well....actually, there ARE progs that let you imbed other files inside of like jpg, bmp, wav, and a few other formats, but those are encryption algorythms, and you have to have a copy of the program on your system, as well as the password to the file itself. Not that this is relevant...just sharing info.Yeah scripts! But not something that really is a *.jpg
my main point was that yeah, ya do load up the page that the jpg sits on, and in so doing, run the risk of loading up the scripts inbedded in the page.
found 50 bucks under the mouse? Send that mouse fairy my way dernit!
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