Re: Scary article in Wall Street Journal today
On 2/18/10, Paul E Condon <pecondon@mesanetworks.net> wrote:
> Today in Wall Street Journal (pg 3 in US edition), there is an article
> about hacker break-ins to computers via the internet. Mentioned as the
> method of break-in are spyware called ZeuS, and Firefox browser, but
> no mention of what OS are aflicted.
>
> I assume most of the affected computers are running some version of
> Microsoft Windows, but is this also a threat to Linux, and, in
> particular, Debian with Iceweasel? Where can I look to read a
> discussion in more detail than this issue merits on this list?
> e.g. How does ZeuS work? And what does it do?
>
> TIA
>
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> Paul E Condon
> pecondon@mesanetworks.net
http://www.pcworld.com/article/189717/kneber_botnet_attacks_pcs_worldwide_faq.html
Looks like only windows, specially XP-SP2...
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Javier.
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