Friday, September 22. 2006
Status: Yellow. Exploit Code is making the rounds!
ISC has gone Status Yellow because of new exploit code.
It's a drive by - you'll NEVER know you got hacked on a fully-patched Win XP system until someone empties your PayPal account.
Video of it happening is at The Websense Security Blog.
More info in Tuesday's ISC Diary, and Thursday.
JaBbA's Recommendations:
#1 - Use Firefox with NoScript.
#2 - Update your Antivirus. If you don't have Antivirus, try AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition.
#3 - Use Thunderbird instead of outlook.
#4 - Slow down on that itchy trigger finger. Do you really need to click that link that was just sent to you?
#5 - Unregister the DLLs. This isn't for the faint of heart, but it will stop the hack
Remove the -u to reregister them after October 10th, the date this is supposed to be fixed.
It's a drive by - you'll NEVER know you got hacked on a fully-patched Win XP system until someone empties your PayPal account.
Video of it happening is at The Websense Security Blog.
More info in Tuesday's ISC Diary, and Thursday.
JaBbA's Recommendations:
#1 - Use Firefox with NoScript.
#2 - Update your Antivirus. If you don't have Antivirus, try AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition.
#3 - Use Thunderbird instead of outlook.
#4 - Slow down on that itchy trigger finger. Do you really need to click that link that was just sent to you?
#5 - Unregister the DLLs. This isn't for the faint of heart, but it will stop the hack
regsvr32 -u "%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VGX\vgx.dll"
or
regsvr32 /u "%CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\VGX\vgx.dll"
Remove the -u to reregister them after October 10th, the date this is supposed to be fixed.
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