Re: New piece of spyware?

From: Harlan Carvey (keydet89_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/13/04

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    Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 14:08:52 -0700 (PDT)
To: caldcv@students.fccj.org, incidents@securityfocus.com

    CC,

    I'm not clear on why you think this is spyware. You
    say that you "noticed on my mIRC IRC client that
    something is pasting out ads to the current window".
    If these ads are appearing in your mIRC window,
    wouldn't you then figure that it's a function of mIRC?
     Other chat clients (AIM, Yahoo!, etc.) have similar
    functionality.

    Given what you've stated, this doesn't sound like
    spyware at all.

    --- caldcv@students.fccj.org wrote:
    >
    >
    > Hi,
    >
    > I have a Windows Server 2003 machine. Lately, I
    > noticed on my mIRC IRC client that something is
    > pasting out ads to the current window.
    >
    > [14:40] <nickname> New threat exploits flaw in
    > Internet Explorer -
    >
    http://www.addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&type=news&ID=2039
    > , please support them by clicking the GOOGLE AD
    > inside the articles on the right.
    >
    > [09:46] <nickname> Sasser worm author needs money -
    >
    http://addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&type=news&ID=2035
    > , also please support us by clicking the AD inside
    > the article on the right.
    >
    > [09:55] <nickname> 'Doom' creator Id - soon to start
    > on new game -
    >
    http://addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&type=news&ID=2030
    > , also please support us by clicking the AD inside
    > the article on the right.
    >
    > [14:49] <nickname> please support
    > http://www.addict3d.org (A computer security
    > website) by clicking a google AD, INSIDE the
    > articles on the right. Thanks alot. :]
    >
    > This last ad was the first one I've seen. I've ran
    > SpyBot S&D and Ad-aware with no results. I've search
    > Google for addict3d with no results either.
    >
    > Thanks,
    >
    > CC.
    >
    >
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