Re: Malware-Speak' Spooks Symantec

[TheGesus <thegesus () gmail com>]

On 3/2/06, Fergie <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:
> Huh. This is interesting AND funy AND relates to security. ;-)

> Turns out that if someone types "startkeylogger" or "stopkeylogger" in an IRC channel, anyone on the channel using 
> the affected Norton products will be immediately kicked off without warning. These are commands typically issued by 
> the Spybot worm, which spreads over IRC and peer-to-peer file-swapping networks, installing a program that records 
> and transmits everything the victim types (known as a keylogger).


heh... reminds me of the old BBS days when a simple "AT H0" in a
message body would knock an Apple // user offline.

What the hell... they deserved it anyway.

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