Myspace Quicktime patch scam or otherwise ?

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Bill Jillians

Hi ...

long time no see.

I'm just wondering about a warning I get on the front of my Myspace
page. It says there could be a possible security breach (from criminals)
if I don't run a patch for Quicktime which Myspace has somehow
miraculously detected on my computer.

I'm not sure how it did this. Thinking Mr. Murdock could NEVER be in
league with those nasty criminal types, no never, I decided I'd best run
the patch.

Nothing apparently happened. No redirection to a Quicktime website.
Nothing.

I ran it again. Nothing.

I can understand why Myspace might want to compromise the computer of
somebody like me (Cambridge graduate ... links to some heavy hitters) so
what I'm wondering is ..... how do I now check my computer has not been
compromised ???

And also .. does anyone know anything more about the criminal crap going
on at Myspace (and in particular this Quicktime "fix").
 
L

Luke

Hi ...

long time no see.

I'm just wondering about a warning I get on the front of my Myspace
page. It says there could be a possible security breach (from criminals)
if I don't run a patch for Quicktime which Myspace has somehow
miraculously detected on my computer.

I'm not sure how it did this. Thinking Mr. Murdock could NEVER be in
league with those nasty criminal types, no never, I decided I'd best run
the patch.

Nothing apparently happened. No redirection to a Quicktime website.
Nothing.

I ran it again. Nothing.

I can understand why Myspace might want to compromise the computer of
somebody like me (Cambridge graduate ... links to some heavy hitters) so
what I'm wondering is ..... how do I now check my computer has not been
compromised ???

And also .. does anyone know anything more about the criminal crap going
on at Myspace (and in particular this Quicktime "fix").
Click to expand...

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/12/how_not_to_distribute_security_1.html
 
B

Bill Jillians

Quietly we read <[email protected]>, unable to
contain our credulity we realized that Luke said:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/12/how_not_to_distribute
_security_1.html
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Many thanks Luke ... that clarifies the situation. Nobody really knows.

So I wasn't alone in my paranoia? That is comforting.

But I'm going to give any further Myspace recommendations the they
deserve from now on. Myspace clearly have problems that inquiring minds
need to know about.


(Crossposted to alt.suicide.holiday because it is the sort of thing they
deserve to know about).
 
L

Laura Fredericks

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Myspace clearly have problems that inquiring minds
need to know about.
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Owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. ;-)

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Bill Jillians

unable to contain our said:
Bill Jillians <"\"Bill


No, myspace is telling its userbase about a worm that's been spreading
via a Quicktime vulnerability and javascript execution and that among
the only ways to protect yourself is to have a patched quicktime, or
not run active scripting, or no have quicktime at all.


Myspace is script kiddie heaven. Dont' surf it without a hell of a
lot of care because like any site that allows a tremendous degree of
user generated content and html, it's dangerous as hell to be in there
with javascript turned on.

Best Regards,
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Thanks Todd.

One thing I have noticed since I clicked on that link is that Javascript
is now turned off.

Guess I have a choice between Javascript and Myspace.
 
T

Todd H.

Bill Jillians said:
Hi ...

long time no see.

I'm just wondering about a warning I get on the front of my Myspace
page. It says there could be a possible security breach (from
criminals) if I don't run a patch for Quicktime which Myspace has
somehow miraculously detected on my computer.
Click to expand...

No, myspace is telling its userbase about a worm that's been spreading
via a Quicktime vulnerability and javascript execution and that among
the only ways to protect yourself is to have a patched quicktime, or
not run active scripting, or no have quicktime at all.
I'm not sure how it did this. Thinking Mr. Murdock could NEVER be in
league with those nasty criminal types, no never, I decided I'd best
run the patch.

Nothing apparently happened. No redirection to a Quicktime
website. Nothing.

I ran it again. Nothing.

I can understand why Myspace might want to compromise the computer of
somebody like me (Cambridge graduate ... links to some heavy hitters)
so what I'm wondering is ..... how do I now check my computer has not
been compromised ???

And also .. does anyone know anything more about the criminal crap
going on at Myspace (and in particular this Quicktime "fix").
Click to expand...

Myspace is script kiddie heaven. Dont' surf it without a hell of a
lot of care because like any site that allows a tremendous degree of
user generated content and html, it's dangerous as hell to be in there
with javascript turned on.

Best Regards,
 
T

Todd H.

Bill Jillians said:
Thanks Todd.

One thing I have noticed since I clicked on that link is that
Javascript is now turned off.

Guess I have a choice between Javascript and Myspace.
Click to expand...

Yeah, myspace is pretty annoying. Many essential features absolutely
require javascript.

I'm not sure what the magical mix of firefox add-ins makes it both
usable and reasonably safe.
 
Y

yarrido

Todd said:
Yeah, myspace is pretty annoying. Many essential features absolutely
require javascript.

I'm not sure what the magical mix of firefox add-ins makes it both
usable and reasonably safe.
Click to expand...

I've been staying away from that place since I heard about it, but had
a client who used it and had to prep a notebook for the web for her.
Only then did I find out that Kaspersky anti-virus, the web portion of
the protection, has a kinipshin-fit when you try to log onto the site.
It gets you stuck in a continuous loop of logins. You have to set up
myspace as a trusted URL in the Kaspersky settings before it will let
you log on. What a pain. And yet, everyone is flocking to the damn
thing. I prefer the roads less traveled on the web since you get to see
much more interesting sites. :)
 
Y

yarrido

Todd said:
Yeah, myspace is pretty annoying. Many essential features absolutely
require javascript.

I'm not sure what the magical mix of firefox add-ins makes it both
usable and reasonably safe.
Click to expand...

I've been staying away from that place since I heard about it, but had
a client who used it and had to prep a notebook for the web for her.
Only then did I find out that Kaspersky anti-virus, the web portion of
the protection, has a kinipshin-fit when you try to log onto the site.
It gets you stuck in a continuous loop of logins. You have to set up
myspace as a trusted URL in the Kaspersky settings before it will let
you log on. What a pain. And yet, everyone is flocking to the damn
thing. I prefer the roads less traveled on the web since you get to see
much more interesting sites. :)
 
L

Laura Fredericks

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But I haven't written any javascript for the page yet.
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Lol. Oh, I sent you a "Friend" request. ;-)

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Laura Fredericks

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where have you been all the last time?
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You're still alive?!

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