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From Kirill Frolov To Boris Paleev 11 July 2004

- --- begin of forward --- Newsgroups: zxnet.pc X-Comment-To: All From: Boris Paleev Date: Sat, 10 Jul 04 09:07:12 +0400 Subject: how wonderful the Internet is... Hello All! CNews.ru: Main news 07/09/2004 - Experts advise finding a replacement for Internet Explorer Internet Explorer security problems are becoming more acute every day. Despite the fact that on July 2 Microsoft released a fresh system update security of your browser, blocking a called Download.Ject, It turned out that this does not protect users from intrusion intruders. Meanwhile, it became known about the appearance of a new version of the old Trojan Lovgate. Concerned about the situation, the American organization CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team - rapid response team for issues information security) officially recommended that users not hesitate with the transition to alternative browsers. Download.Ject, which was supposed to be blocked by the July 2nd update, with using spyware allowed hackers to intercept passwords, numbers credit cards and other information that users entered when authorization on any of the 50 banking sites included in authors. According to Western information security experts, the virus was was created by our compatriots. It intercepted characters entered from Keyboard by visitors to banking websites and redirecting them to another is a site hosted in Russia. Disrupt plans The of the attackers succeeded in the Internet provider blocking access to this site. Meanwhile, Microsoft released an update that disabled Windows ActiveX component called ADODB.Stream - thanks to spyware was installed on vulnerable computers. No sooner had this update appeared than a new flaw was discovered. Dutch student Jelmer Kuperus published the program code on the Internet, with with which, in his opinion, it is possible to hack Windows security even with installed latest update, using the same vulnerability Download.Ject, only slightly modified. Kuperus suggested attacking ActiveX component Shell.Application. According to him, the vulnerability of this the component was discovered back in January of this year. To demonstrate the danger of the hole he found for users Internet Explorer, Kuperus posted malicious code on his own website that uses Shell.Application vulnerability. Any user of Windows XP with Internet Explorer visiting the site, the system will freeze. Kuperus assures that nosuch a demonstration does no harm, but the attackers are not asleep, and have already Soon the identified vulnerability will be exploited by hackers. Internet Explorer Vulnerability Discoveries Become So Frequent and Common a phenomenon that many experts seriously recommend to those who care about their own safety users switch to alternative browsers - for example, Mozilla or Opera. Thus, the American federal agency Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) last week recommended that IT professionals go over to browsers alternative to Internet Explorer. Immediately after the appearance of this recommendations, number of downloads of Mozilla browser distributions, for example, has doubled; at the moment it is about 200 thousand copies per week. While Microsoft is fighting Download.Ject, a new variant of the worm has been discovered Lovgate, which was born back in February 2003. July 4th were discovered its new versions are the so-called Lovgate.AE and Lovgate.AH. Their main difference from previous generations - in the nature of the impact on the affected computer. Now they no longer delete user data, but replace executable files copies of themselves. As a result, the computer may become useless hardware on which it will be impossible to run any application. According to Sophos security expert Carole Tyheriault,the latest versions of Lovgate are made - due to their extreme, destructiveness uncharacteristic of the modern generation of viruses. Experts McAfee has raised the threat level of new Lovgate variants to - in the first day after the discovery of the virus, more than a hundred were found copies of it. Article address: http://www.cnews.ru/newtop/index.shtml?2004/07/09/161061 - All rights reserved from 1995 - 2004 RIA For advertising and news subscription questions, please contact marketing@cnews.ru Best regards, Boris - --- end of forward --- Lovgate -- Lovingod ?