Re: trojans

From: Bit Twister (BitTwister_at_localhost.localdomain)
Date: 06/28/04 

Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 18:17:03 GMT

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:15:46 +0200, Jim Watt wrote:

> As far as I can see its an old exploit for Netscape 3 ? When using
> that I programmed in an email address of fucku@bastards.com
> good luck to anyone who ever captured that.

I have loaded Mozill.org's Firefox 0.8 on Mandrake linux.
All the mail attempts trapped out with mailto is not a registered protocol

I was enjoying playing with the exploits, up to where it said
something like "Check if we can update Autoexec.bat" and I saw a "I guess so".
Had to stop and go look in the XP directory to see what may have
happened if anything. First time I ever looked at it. Zero byte length
showed with the ls command.
I quickly looked at my backup partition, saw the same thing.
Had me going for a minute.

My solution to possible browser exploits is to create seperate login
accounts for isp account access, credit cards, banking, surfing,
email.... When I login to the account I have it kickup the browser,
newsreader, email whatever I setup the account for using .bash_profile.

When I exit the browser accounts, .bash_logout deletes the
subdirectories/files and untars a new copy of a pristine browser setup
for next time.

Instead of bookmarks I keep a ascii file of urls with keywords to
search with.

> Whats the 'infected image' stuff about?

No idea, I gave up trying to keep up with all the ways Micro$not can get
infected. When Realplayer and pdf documents can infect your system it's time
to drop the OS.

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