Computer Security Weekly, November 15, 1999
Keep your eyes peeled for a
CERT advisory on something called "
trinoo." Back channel rumours from experts who have seen it are rather alarming.
Junk mail filters have been mentioned before as possibly being more trouble than they are worth.
Outlook Express 5.0 has one now, and it seems to be creating problems. An early version was apparently responsible for the ruckus over Blue Mountain. The latest edition still hasn't got the bugs out: one of the things that gets stopped is the excellent
Tidbits newsletter.
A new
Word macro virus is being
hyped in the press as "
The Macro Virus That Won't Die," prompted by press releases from
Alladin Systems. As usual, this is a little wide of the mark. The virus uses a new method of storing itself, and can't be killed by simply deleting your
NORMAL.DOT file, the usual brute force method. A new template file is created in the
\Office\Startup directory. This represents a new Word macro virus storage method, but is no harder to get rid of than those that store in
NORMAL.DOT.
For those of you who want to test out your privacy on the Web, look at
http://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2. The information given isn't great, but it is amusing, and might be a bit of an eye opener for some.
Those who are paranoid about Web privacy are probably using one or more of the anonymizing browsing services on the net. These systems proxy requests so that the site you are accessing doesn't get information about you. However, corporate security types should also know that such systems work both ways. use of these sites can defeat tracking and restricting systems meant to determine what sites users are browsing, or to bar access to certain sites.
ZDNet Story
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and one more
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