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Spyware Trojan sends Hotmail to your boss | |
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| Time: 04:05 EST/09:05 GMT | News Source: The Register | Posted By: Alex Harris | ||
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Here's a piece of software that will make any decent human being vomit. Proudly marketed by spyware outfit SpectorSoft, it's a lowlife Trojan called eBlaster which you can e-mail to anyone in the world foolish enough to use Windows and log their keystrokes, and force their POP mail and Hotmail and Yahoo Web mail accounts to copy you in everything going on. "eBlaster records their e-mails, chats, instant messages, Web sites visited and keystrokes typed -- and then automatically sends this recorded information to your own e-mail address," the company proudly boasts. It's marketed as a 'tool' for over-protective parents and savvy employers, but it's basically a script-kiddie toy which can be delivered surreptitiously to a victim. The potential for abuse is extraordinary, but the company makes no mention of that. They merely warn that if you don't own the computer you infect with their Trojan, you're violating their terms. Surely that stern warning should discourage the malevolent well enough. | ||
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| #1 By 20 (24.243.41.64) at 9/2/2002 12:53:33 AM |
| What's even more sad is that people think that Linux is somehow immune to stupid people doing stupid things. That somehow, if everyone switched from Windows, that none of these problems would be around. |
| #2 By 135 (208.50.201.48) at 9/2/2002 1:20:14 AM |
| My recommendation is that people don't run this trojan. |
| #3 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 9/2/2002 6:32:44 AM |
| rage, perhaps he felt that Windows users were being attacked by the comment "anyone in the world foolish enough to use Windows". Since the only OS's other than Windows that the register has written about are MacOS and Linux, the inference is rather clear that the Register thinks that people should not be foolish (e.g. use windows) and should instead use another OS like Linux. |
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