TROJAN ALERT! (JS/Loop)

[Steve Holden]

I would have characterised this attack as a GUI denial-of-service, not a
Trojan horse. A Trojan horse is an exploit which collects information from
an unsuspecting user and stores or transmits it for use by the third party.
Such misinformation does not lend credibility. The code involved was a
simple infinite alert loop.

Other newsgroups I do not read were removed from this posting.

Sheesh, now we're getting *bots* posting to c.l.py [sorry, Tim <wink>].

regards
 Steve
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"Dr Solomon's Virus Patrol" <Virus.Patrol at drsolomon.com> wrote in message
news:3bc343a0.fba6e0c5.c0a801.00.R at drsolomon.com...
> WARNING! A trojan has been found in an article posted to
> the following newsgroup(s):
>  comp.lang.javascript, alt.config, comp.lang.perl.misc, comp.lang.python,
>  comp.os.linux.misc
>
> Message header follows:
>
> >Message-Id: <a90580a3.ace1cf70 at adelphia.net>
> >From: "dvus" <dven1 at adelphia.net>
> >Subject: YOU ARE ALL GAY!
> >Date: 09 Oct 2001 15:11:40 GMT
>
> Dr Solomon's FindVirus/VirusScan report follows:
>
>  Dr Solomon's FindVirus IN-HOUSE version. Copyright (c) 1999 Network
Associates Inc.
>  Virus data file v9999 created Oct 08 2001
>  Scanning for 58978 viruses, trojans and variants.
>
>  [HTML part] ... Found the JS/Loop trojan !!!
>
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>
> IMPORTANT! The trojan has been detected by the latest IN-HOUSE version of
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rate
> of several hundreds a month, the latest RELEASED version of
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