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Old 06-19-2006, 09:54 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Google Page Creator Used to Host Trojan Virus

Article from a href="http://www.pcworld.com/resource/article/0,aid,126152,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp"PCWorld.com/a states that hackers are using Google Page Creator to host a "Key Logger" Trojan virus in order to record key strokes to those that visit online banking institutions.br
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Google's Web site hosting service is apparently being used by hackers to try to steal money using a malicious program, a security company said. Security vendor Websense warned last week that a Trojan horse is being hosted on a site with the same IP (Internet protocol) address as the main Google Pages Web site.
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Wow I have not heard of this until now! Thanks for the info esoterroriffik
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Yes, it's hard to believe that there are some people that will just click on anything,
without even taking the simple precaution of making sure it's not an executable file.

It's a sad fact of life that there are a lot of malicious morons out there, and there's virtually no place to completely lower your guard.
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without even taking the simple precaution of making sure it's not an executable file.
I've seen a few other ways of logging actions.
Quite often they just give a link, that, if you have javascript enabled, will look legitimate. They change the URL that is seen when you hover over a link, they put another URL into the new page, and they make it look exactly like the site they are copying.
Then they just use a PHP or Javascript keylogger to log your actions, and they have your account info.

I'm glad I have NoScript.
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