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Boom in PC Postmortems as ****-planting Spyware Grows

Discussion in 'Security and Privacy' started by charlesvar, 2005/04/03.

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    charlesvar

    charlesvar Inactive Alumni Thread Starter

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    http://castlecops.com/article5863.html

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    JoeHobart

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    heh. i've been saying for years that some poor chump is going to get fired for "surfing **** at work" due to some browser hijack and make a federal case about it.

    Interestingly, you cannot distiguish between an adware pull of ****, and a user typed visit. Best you can do is identify that some spyware is on the machine, and show that it pulls bad stuff. If i got a **** popup from adware and surfed around on the site, you could not prove it was me or the adware without a crazy amount of disassembly/debugging which would a) be against the law, and b) not be admissible in court.
     
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    TonyT

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    Easy to distinguish between someone who purposely went to a **** site and one who only had **** spyware. There's a regkey that stores Typed URLs history, if **** sites are stored in that key then the user had to have typed the url for the site, which proves clearly he had an intention to go there.
     
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    charlesvar

    charlesvar Inactive Alumni Thread Starter

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    Wonder how many marriages/relationships have been affected by this?

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    Oh, well glad its that easy tony, thanks for setting me straight. You should write this company and give them a little tune up, too.
     
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    I just used RegSeeker to view my IE URLs, the typed URLs key, and there are many present that I never typed. Some were links that I clicked, some addresses I pasted, and still others that I've never been to, which suggests a popunder that I closed without viewing.
     
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