Fake IE7 Release Site Uploads Trojan

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   22 Oct 2006 ~ 10:05pm jhenry Never... It's impossible. It's that damn Mozilla crew trying to gain more users by adding in vulnerabilities to Internet Explorer by means of that awful Firefox trojan horse.
   
   Evil bastards, how dare they spit on the good work of Microsoft's top engineering? Standards compliance is for pussies... Real engineers make their own rules...
   
   In all seriousness, it's a sad blow to IE. It just keeps getting hammered, yet some people, namely the mother figure, don't want to move to anything else since Microsoft made the OS, so they know best on everything else... Hopefully more news like this will reach mainstream news, CNN, or a Law & Order episode (that's the only thing that'll change her mind...Here's an idea, let's get Vincent D'Onofrio to do a Firefox TV ad! All the middle aged TV watching women in the world will instantly become new Firefox users... That's probably 50% of computer users right there. Get Jessica Alba or Angelina Jolie to do an ad, and there's the other 50%. Ellen Degenerate and Elton John will grab the alternative folks out there, and we'll have a 100% Firefox supporting population!) Then people will start to pay attention and worry more about their security.
   
   
   I didn't see the versions affected, I'm assuming it was IE6 and down? Or was IE7 affected too?
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   22 Oct 2006 ~ 10:19pm profdlp

   jhenry wrote:

   ...I didn't see the versions affected, I'm assuming it was IE6 and down? Or was IE7 affected too?

   It was nothing specific to the browser, other than making use of an existing vulnerability. It was a case of beguiling people into visiting a fake website where they thought they were getting the IE7 download, then pulling the old switcheroo and giving them a trojan instead.
   
   It is ironic that it was a browser vulnerability which made it possible, though.
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   22 Oct 2006 ~ 11:51pm gtghm if you went through the MS site rather than some other hack site there wouldn't be that kind of problem...
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   23 Oct 2006 ~ 1:11am AussieAnnette hmm general sentiment is that this IE7 is a piec of <strike>crap</strike> rubbish.
   
   ahhahah
   
   thanks for the tip, I've posted this on some other boards...
   
   I won't be getting it until Microsoft sprays it for bugs.