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A new web-based attack is making the rounds that tries to spread poisonous links by hijacking end users' clipboards.
Forum discussions all over report the same thing: the commenter surfs to a seemingly legitimate site (MSNBC.com comes up more than once) and suddenly a malicious link is copied to the clipboard. The rogue link remains even after the user copies a new batch of text. The only way to remove it is to reboot the computer.
You'll need to read the rest of the story for the who, what, where, and how of it from theregister.co.uk.
The attack has been reported by Firefox users running both OS X and Windows, but we wouldn't be surprised to hear that other browsers and operating systems are also vulnerable. It's unclear exactly how the attack spreads. The Spyware Sucks blog posits here that banner ads transmitting bad Adobe Flash code is responsible, and that makes sense to us.
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1 comment:
oh, on the matter of pc's waking up... I had that capability on my Epson Equity II purchased in 1988. Nice to see they are coming around. Also, most modern PC's built for networking have a "Wake on Lan" feature allowing for the right call across the network to wake them up. Consider an offfice with 300 computers to update overnight. It is useful.
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