[JA] Re: Report on Spyware
- From: J�rel DD Arbaugh <computerist@xxxxxxxx>
- To: juno_accmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, no-tag-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 13:10:22 PDT
}Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 23:01:05 -0400
}Subject: [JA] Report on Spyware
}From: jim.henderson
}The Internet community is a couple hundred million people, worldwide.
}They should be warned more urgently about the prevalence of hoaxes.
}
}Which old hand has ever seen this bogeyman, of which we are warned?
Not
}that I absolutely deny the existence of bogeymen in the absence of
}evidence, but it seems to me there should be some evidence before those
}couple hundred million people all get busy looking for bogeymen.
At least one list member reported infection, though the real
source of the programs appears to be other than juno. Given that, I do
not think this is a hoax, as much as misdirected finger pointing.
That being said, there are some hoax related sites on the net.
It should be noted that some times what WAS just a hoax becomes a
reality. As an example:
AOL4FREE:
This was originally a program that could be used to create a
fraudulent account on AOL.
A short time after it started passing around, a warning started
going around that it was a trojan that erased your hard disk.
YEARS later, some one created a tiny program by that name that
DID erase almost all of your hard disk! (It was found to be a compiled
batch file that used DELTREE to do its dirty work. DELTREE did not even
come with DOS at the time the false warnings came out!)
There are some "malware" programs that insert themselves in to
your system be replacing winsock.dll or a similar component. These are
much harder to spot than a program that was just set to start when
windows starts, as the programs starting this thread appear to be.
Good Luck!
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