[mdlug] I tremble for my OS when I reflect that virus-writers are so frickin' devious

[Ingles, Raymond]

So my wife opens an email she really shouldn't have. At least she's
running Thunderbird and not Outlook, but it still installs some crap and
has popups coming up regularly on the screen. Of course, you can't get
to antivirus stuff from that machine, even with Firefox - queries like
that get redirected to random links.

 Using the standard tools like Spybot and Ad-aware - downloaded from the
Linux box downstairs - I seem to have killed it. But it did a 'clever'
trick - it had reconfigured Firefox to use a proxy on localhost at port
7171. That's right, it was running its own HTTP proxy.

 Eventually these schmucks are going to target Linux. Linux has *better*
security than Windows (it'd be hard to be worse) but it's far from
invulnerable. I really don't want to have to clean up crap like that on
my Linux box. Oy.

 Sincerely,

 Ray Ingles                                (313) 227-2317

   "History never repeats itself, but it often rhymes." 
                    - Mark Twain
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