E-card Sneakware Delivers Web Porn

E-card Sneakware Delivers Web Porn
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2002-10-21

A Trojan horse program created by an Internet adult entertainment company routes surfers to racy sites.

E-card Sneakware Delivers Web Porn 2002-10-21
CoolestCriminal (2 replies)

I think that somebody should inform Mr. Oliver that any of those file sharing companies who are not following the laws are subjected for punishment. Mr Oliver thinks that he is above the law. What a dork....

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E-card Sneakware Delivers Web Porn 2002-10-27
The Loser

This is cheating. Where is the gov now ? this aint right :| ...

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E-card Sneakware Delivers Web Porn 2002-10-27
Anonymous

Mr. Oliver also says that hundreds of programs install "spyware/adware", which is true. Over 800 programs are listed as containing spyware/adware. However, all he bothers to list are a couple of P2P programs. He could have made a better point and listed a couple of legitimate software programs th...

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Does the trojan not have an EULA? 2002-10-21
Anonymous (2 replies)

If there is a nice click through EULA saying what it does, and if it does present the ecard in the process, wouldn't it probably be legal, or at least more gray?

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Read the article 2002-10-23
Anonymous

Canada-based Cytron Communications Ltd. They never do get a greeting card.

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Does the trojan not have an EULA? 2002-10-24
Ranger Smith (1 replies)

It might be *more* legal to show a license agreement, assuming it had some fine print that tells the user they are about to be hijacked. But even if it forces people to read it and explicitly check a box, I doubt that it would stand up in court.

Most click-through EULAs (End User License Agree...

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Does the trojan not have an EULA? 2002-10-24
Anonymous (1 replies)

this one has no EULA, but there is one from friend greetings that tells you that it is going to send out emails to address book. It is there in and if you stupid enough to finish installing, then I hope the people in your address like friendgreeting.com...

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Friendgreetings is the one with the EULA 2002-10-28
Shawn

http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/friendgreetings.html

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E-card Sneakware Delivers Web Porn 2002-10-22
Newtron

Didn't Kazaa take all the spyware out of their newest release?

BTW, Kevin Poulsen is the greatest person to have ever lived....

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E-card Sneakware - Signed ActiveX Hazards 2002-10-24
Ranger Smith (2 replies)

Yet another illustration of why the ActiveX model "sucks more than anything that has ever sucked before."

People are lucky they're only served up embarrassing content, since they could be having their hard disk completely read, modified or destroyed after they accept a malicious ActiveX component...

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E-card Sneakware - Signed ActiveX Hazards 2002-10-25
Anonymous

Anyway i feel that it (ActiveX) must have been created by some companly like cythron. ...

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E-card Sneakware - Signed ActiveX Hazards 2002-10-29
Anonymous

Actually, if it sends porn out in my name, it will trash my reputation.

That is *far* more damaging to me than the simple loss of my files....

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Can a snort or email filter rule be created for this "spawn of hell" 2002-10-25
Anonymous

Subject says it all. Is there a Snort or simple email filter exists that allows denying this beast, exluding the blocking of all ActiveX and other MS evil attachments?...

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removal? 2002-10-25
djmoose

So is there a procedure to remove this active-x component?

(in either case)...

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