-Caveat Lector-
Date: Thursday, December 17, 1998
Subj: Mike Elgan's Win Letter 25
NETBUS
A hacker utility called "Netbus" sports a "Linda Tripp"
feature that enables hackers to bug your office. Netbus
is freely available on the Internet and consists of
separate server and client programs. Hackers can name
the server program anything they like (say, joke.exe)
and send it to victims as an e-mail attachment. If you
open the program, your computer becomes controllable
in specific ways by anyone with the Netbus client.
Hackers could then use the microphone attached to
your computer to record meetings and phone conversations
you might be having! In addition, they can take
screenshots of your computer screen and transfer any
file to and from your computer.
Get more information and the fix here:
http://w1.361.telia.com/~u36106214/netbus/indexenglish.html
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Date: Sunday, November 15, 1998
Subj: Mike Elgan's Win Letter 24
UTILITY WATCH
Beware of the Internet's first HTML virus! Discovered
in a Russian lab associated with Central Command,
the virus, called "HTML.Internal, replicates itself
inside every HTML document it can find. The virus
only works in Microsoft Internet Explorer after the
security settings have been changed from the default
settings. HTML.Internal is a script virus, much like
Winscript.Rabbit. The virus doesn't damage files or
erase data. But it does use Visual Basic to search for
and modify other HTML files. Central Command's
AntiViral Toolkit Pro now detects and fixes
HTML.Internal. And you can download a 30-day
fully functional trial version from the company's
web site.
More about HTML.Internal:
http://www.avpve.com/viruses/script/internal.html
Get the trial version of AntiViral Toolkit Pro:
http://www.avp.com/download/body_download.html
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Virus Thrives on HTML
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by Chris Oakes, 11.Nov.98
An old computer invader has found a new place to thrive.
A virus-monitoring group this week posted a computer
virus -- called "html.internal" -- that is the first to
replicate itself through hypertext markup language, or
HTML, the code that defines the common Web page.
"Looks like the virus crowd has finally discovered the
Internet," said Richard Smith of Phar Lap Software.
"HTML pages are extremely mobile.... They're intended to
be given out."
Other observers point out the demonstration virus
http://sourceofkaos.com/homes/madokan/internal.html
requires specific Windows scripting software to carry
out its task. They maintain that the virus, therefore,
exposes the vulnerability of the secondary software,
VisualBasic Script, not plain vanilla Web pages.
"It draws attention to the power that's available to the
VBScript programmer," said Jimmy Kuo, director of
antivirus research at Network Associates.
A computer virus typically spreads through shared files,
such as word processing documents or email attachments.
It most often consists of a program or piece of code
that runs invisibly on any computer it manages to
infect. Like any virus, it replicates itself. That
replication can be threatening in itself if the virus is
large, since it will quickly fill a computer's memory
and cause a crash.
Viruses once depended mainly on floppy disks for their
travels, but networks have introduced an easier path.
The HTML virus, created by the Virus Information Center
and released on Tuesday, was built as a demo and does
not present a large security risk in and of itself. It
works through Internet Explorer 4.0 and relies on the
scripting feature, VBScript, built into the latest
Microsoft PC operating system, Windows 98. If security
warnings are ignored, the virus will load via a Web page
and infect other Web pages on the host computer.
Protections already built into Internet Explorer 4.0
would warn users if they encountered the virus, said a
Microsoft spokeswoman.
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All rights reserved.
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