Re: Spyware installs with no interaction in IE on fully patched XP SP2 box

["Joel R. Helgeson" <joel () helgeson com>]

What was the site?

Joel R. Helgeson
Director of Networking & Security Services
SymetriQ Corporation

"Give a man fire, and he'll be warm for a day; set a man on fire, and he'll 
be warm for the rest of his life."
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geraldo Rivera" <iamafraud () hotmail com>
To: <full-disclosure () lists netsys com>
Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 1:16 PM
Subject: [Full-disclosure] Spyware installs with no interaction in IE on 
fully patched XP SP2 box


> Last night I went to a site that I have been to on and off for years. The 
> page loaded and then in IE's status bar I saw something suspicious: 
> "installing components...atpartners.cab". I could not close out of IE, and 
> I could not kill the iexplorer.exe process. It totally locked up and I had 
> to reboot my machine. When my machine came back up, I had at least 6 
> different pieces of spyware/adware on my machine. IT took me almost 2 hrs 
> to clean up. I manually deleted a bunch of crap (stuff I had found through 
> the run key in the registry, suspicious processes running, suspicious 
> files in the usual dir's, and by searching for all files modified at the 
> time this happened). Even after all that, Ad-Aware found 143 entries (none 
> were cookies, mostly registry entries and a few dll's) and then Spybot 
> found an additional 2 registry entries.
>
> This machine is a fully patched XP SP2 box, with the default security 
> settings for IE's Internet Zone. Does anybody know what method this crap 
> could be using to install without any user interaction?
>
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