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join:2001-05-05 | reply to rustydog999
Re: StopSign - WARNING! - Eanthology Don't know how your boss got StopSign, but previously it was installing itself unbidden using ActiveX when a user's browser settings were lax enough to allow download on demand and allowed ActiveX to download and run without restrictions. eAnthology previously said that they were ending that practice, but as CJ noted there are still reports that people do find it on their PC's without ever being presented with a prompt to disallow download.
Now he also may have clicked on an advert banner or popup, been taken to their site and helped himself to a "free" AV scan that resulted in the download. I don't know if they still have that set up but they did before. So those are at least two ways to get that on one's PC.
And if MSBlaster demonstrated anything, it definitely proved that PC's on dialups are not exempt from internet borne malware and users should use some sort of firewall if they have open ports on the internet. |
