Spyware becomes increasingly malicious
william(at)elan.net
william at elan.net
Mon Jul 12 12:54:04 UTC 2004
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, William Warren wrote:
> coolwebsearch has become more and more sneaky..so bad that
> development of cws shredder has been abandoned by its
> developer....Either serious lock down you ie(which with CWS is
> not going to help) or use something other than ie.
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/8998
"Jun 28 2004 7:38AM
US CERT (the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team), is advising people to
ditch Internet Explorer and use a different browser after the latest
security vulnerability in the software was exposed"
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622344,00.asp
"July 12, 2004
In the wake of last week's revelation of a security hole in Mozilla that
allows the execution of arbitrary programs on the client system a
philosophical debate has emerged: Is this a bug in Mozilla or a bug in
Windows?"
--
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william at elan.net
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