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Firefox/adobe Flashplayer users

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Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 3 Sep 2009 08:51

Have you been caught yet?
see below..

Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 3 Sep 2009 08:52

received this warning Via Mcafee.......

Spyware ad-on targets Firefox fans
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/01/firefox_spyware_add_on/
By John Leyden • Get more from this author

Posted in Anti-Virus, 1st September 2009 18:27 GMT

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Miscreants have created an item of spyware targeted at Firefox users.

The malware poses as an Adobe Flash Player update but in reality its designed to log a user's browsing history, in particular their Google search queries within Firefox. This information is uploaded to a hacker-controlled server.

EBOD-A also has the capability to inject ads into the user’s Google search results pages, Trend Micro warns, which adds that the malware appears to be spreading via forum posts.

The spyware creates a Firefox add-on called "Adobe Flash Player 0.2", which has nothing to do with either Adobe or Mozilla. More on the threat can be found in a write-up by Trend, which includes screenshots, here.

http://blog.trendmicro.com/firefox-addo-spies-on-google-search-results/#ixzz0Ps0pxL4F

Malware targeting Firefox users is rare but not unprecedented. Strains of malware that latch onto Internet Explorer, Microsoft's Swiss-cheese browser, are much more commonplace. Common IE-related malware trickery involves exploiting unpatched security vulns to download malware onto vulnerable machines via drive-by download attacks. ®

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 3 Sep 2009 09:07

Daft question but is there a way I would know Bob?

Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 3 Sep 2009 09:14

Not A daft Question at all, Ann,

but I dont know, I dont use Firefox, but there are several posters' that do......

all I suggest is that you have a read at the second link that is in the post,
and here

Read About It
Information about FFSpy is located on VIL at: http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_218725.htm


XX
Bob

MrDaff

MrDaff Report 3 Sep 2009 10:55

Hiya Bob... ~~~~ to Ann.

A couple of weeks ago I had a trojan and lots of viruses... I have Kaspersky, but my granddaughter (aged 3 and a quarter, lol) had been playing around on Ceebeebies... anyway.. I think between me and her we managed to gag some of my Kaspersky setup.

Suffice it to say that I had loads of problems, and they were connected to Opera (not Firefox) and Adobe, mainly... I ended up just deleting everything that had an *adobe* in it's title.. and Opera, oh, and Quicktime.... some of the problems were on that Win32...... I think I have it sorted, but was that the same as you are talking about, do you think?

Love

Daff xxxxx

Pat Kendrick

Pat Kendrick Report 3 Sep 2009 11:02

Thanks Bob
I had a pop up on Tuesday asking me to update Adobe I was too busy so ignored it (thank goodness). Haven't seen it since though.

Pat

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 3 Sep 2009 15:41

I am pretty certain that we have not installed it, will keep an eye out for it.