Is ANYONE Surprised?

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050805-5175.html

"Researchers from a little-known security software company named Sunbelt Software have seemingly uncovered a criminal identity theft ring of massive proportions. According to one of their employees, Alex Eckelberry, during the course of one of their recent investigations into a particular Spyware application—rumored to be called CoolWebSearch—they've discovered that the personal information of those "infected" was being captured and uploaded to a server."
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The list of stolen information includes not only bank accounts but website passwords, eBay accounts, what sort of adult images you fancy, and, supposedly, even more...

Sunbelt has not confirmed what spyware it is, but think of how many machines you've found CoolWebShit on... THAT's how big this scam might be.

Comments

[axessdenyd.livejournal.com]

Not suprised at all.

We do not like CoolWebSearch.

[tecie.livejournal.com]

yet another reason why linux is better in an enterprise environment -- firefox is not a direct part of your OS.

[perkybitch.livejournal.com]

Not suprised.

Lets start having some laws passed that ACTUALLY do something about this shit. For reals.

...That and Im tired of cleaning the shit up :(

[jecook]

Not surprised at all.

and people bitch and moan when I gank most of their browsing privedges after having to clean their machines twice in a row...

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised.

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

Firefox isn't a direct part of anyone's OS. Methinks you meant "browser", as in Internet Exploder.

[goose-entity.livejournal.com]

The policy I have pushed out is:

"If it has CoolWebSearch, backup the user's data and wipe the HD"....