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Subject: be wary of this very clever trojan/dropper mail

mrsparky opened this issue on Jan 13, 2005 ยท 8 posts


spothmann posted Sat, 15 January 2005 at 7:16 PM

Plus Zone alarm seems to stop the use of 1x1 web-bugs. And how would it do that? The request for the 1-square-pixel-image comes from inside your email program, which has access to the net... BTW, what's the exact use of ZoneAlarm? If you have caught a trojan, do you indeed believe that this would try to "phone home" by its real name? (ZoneAlarms message:) "Hi, this is the evil trojan IWILLHACKYOU trying to access the internet. Do you want to allow this?" Don't you think that the question asked by Zonealarm could possibly look much more like this, if the cracker who wrote that particular trojan was not totally dumb: "Hi, this is the INTERNET EXPLORER (YOURMAILSOFTWARE, WINDOWS-UPDATE...) trying to access the internet. Do you want to allow this?" Perhaps something to think about...