Virus laden site

The BBC has an article relating to alcohol "binge drinking" on it's site
at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4003229.stm

This site links to http://www.drinkaware.co.uk/

The latter seems to redirect to www.sp2****ed.biz which is laden with
viruses.

One to avoid if you have IE as it doesn't seem to affect Firefox

In article <MPG.1bfe7fe539a3678b989cc6@news.individual.net>,
tx2newscollection@hotmail.com, a.k.a Tx2 says...
>
>
> The BBC has an article relating to alcohol "binge drinking" on it's site
> at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4003229.stm
>
> This site links to http://www.drinkaware.co.uk/
>
> The latter seems to redirect to www.sp2****ed.biz which is laden with
> viruses.
>
> One to avoid if you have IE as it doesn't seem to affect Firefox


Scrub that, it hits Firefox as well.

Tx2 wrote:
> In article <MPG.1bfe7fe539a3678b989cc6@news.individual.net>,
> tx2newscollection@hotmail.com, a.k.a Tx2 says...
>
>>
>>The BBC has an article relating to alcohol "binge drinking" on it's site
>>at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4003229.stm
>>
>>This site links to http://www.drinkaware.co.uk/
>>
>>The latter seems to redirect to www.sp2****ed.biz which is laden with
>>viruses.
>>
>>One to avoid if you have IE as it doesn't seem to affect Firefox
>
>
>
> Scrub that, it hits Firefox as well.

How? Because of Lava scripting being enabled? Or is there some Windows
vulnerability that Firefox can't avoid?

Tx2 wrote:
> In article <MPG.1bfe7fe539a3678b989cc6@news.individual.net>,
> tx2newscollection@hotmail.com, a.k.a Tx2 says...
>
>>
>>The BBC has an article relating to alcohol "binge drinking" on it's site
>>at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4003229.stm
>>
>>This site links to http://www.drinkaware.co.uk/
>>
>>The latter seems to redirect to www.sp2****ed.biz which is laden with
>>viruses.
>>
>>One to avoid if you have IE as it doesn't seem to affect Firefox
>
>
>
> Scrub that, it hits Firefox as well.

"Hits"? I just got a download file prompt which I cancelled.


aD

In article <4194bbc0$0$234$5a6aecb4@news.aaisp.net.uk>,
aD@simplypeachy.invalid, a.k.a aD says...
> Tx2 wrote:
> > In article <MPG.1bfe7fe539a3678b989cc6@news.individual.net>,
> > tx2newscollection@hotmail.com, a.k.a Tx2 says...
> >
> >>
> >>The BBC has an article relating to alcohol "binge drinking" on it's site
> >>at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4003229.stm
> >>
> >>This site links to http://www.drinkaware.co.uk/
> >>
> >>The latter seems to redirect to www.sp2****ed.biz which is laden with
> >>viruses.
> >>
> >>One to avoid if you have IE as it doesn't seem to affect Firefox
> >
> >
> >
> > Scrub that, it hits Firefox as well.
>
> "Hits"? I just got a download file prompt which I cancelled.


Oh FFS ... if you are going to pick ****ing holes, then i won't bother
posting warnings .... *******s to you.

In article <zz2ld.88946$R05.38477@attbi_s53>, optikl@invalid.net, a.k.a
optikl says...


> How? Because of Lava scripting being enabled? Or is there some Windows
> vulnerability that Firefox can't avoid?

I don't know, but simply loading (or attempting to load) the page in
Firefox resulted in my NOD32 springing into action ...

I know not, nor want to, the inner workings, except to say the said URL
is (was?) a virus source.

Tx2 wrote:
> In article <zz2ld.88946$R05.38477@attbi_s53>, optikl@invalid.net, a.k.a
> optikl says...
>
>
>
>>How? Because of Lava scripting being enabled? Or is there some Windows
>>vulnerability that Firefox can't avoid?
>
>
> I don't know, but simply loading (or attempting to load) the page in
> Firefox resulted in my NOD32 springing into action ...
>
> I know not, nor want to, the inner workings, except to say the said URL
> is (was?) a virus source.

Ah, maybe NOD32 is smart enough to notice that Firefox went to fetch the
URL and not necessarily download it.

aD

I didn't see a problem and I don't read Cyrillic.

Dave :-(




"Tx2" <tx2newscollection@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1bfe7fe539a3678b989cc6@news.individual.net...
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| The BBC has an article relating to alcohol "binge drinking" on it's site
| at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4003229.stm
|
| This site links to http://www.drinkaware.co.uk/
|
| The latter seems to redirect to www.sp2****ed.biz which is laden with
| viruses.
|
| One to avoid if you have IE as it doesn't seem to affect Firefox

"optikl" <optikl@invalid.net> wrote in message
news:zz2ld.88946$R05.38477@attbi_s53...
> Tx2 wrote:
>> In article <MPG.1bfe7fe539a3678b989cc6@news.individual.net>,
>> tx2newscollection@hotmail.com, a.k.a Tx2 says...
>>
>>>
>>>The BBC has an article relating to alcohol "binge drinking" on it's site
>>>at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4003229.stm
>>>
>>>This site links to http://www.drinkaware.co.uk/
>>>
>>>The latter seems to redirect to www.sp2****ed.biz which is laden with
>>>viruses.
>>>
>>>One to avoid if you have IE as it doesn't seem to affect Firefox
>>
>>
>>
>> Scrub that, it hits Firefox as well.
>
> How? Because of Lava scripting being enabled? Or is there some Windows
> vulnerability that Firefox can't avoid?
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I have visited www.sp2****ed.biz using XP Corp SP2 and IE6 with Popupcop,
F-Secure Antivirus Client Security 5.54 and Webroot Spy Sweeper 3.2.147 all
running in an attempt to identify the viruses from this site. Whatever I
click on the site, I cannot get a virus or spyware warning. Are you sure
this site is laden with viruses??? Please identify the viruses for me if
you can.

Thanks.

In Message-ID:<MPG.1bfecd8b42f02ba0989ccf@news.individual.net> posted on
Fri, 12 Nov 2004 13:40:01 -0000, Tx2 wrote: Begin

>I know not, nor want to, the inner workings, except to say the said URL
>is (was?) a virus source.

Now that's a prime example of the kind of arrant fool that inspires
malware authors. <g>

BTW: the site by itself does NOTHING!
Just a come on to get you to install a spyware toolbar and seems to have
a phishing component as well.

--

Bart