Security Incidents: Re: New piece of spyware?

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Fri, 14 May 2004 02:04:24 -0000, caldcv () students fccj org  said:

>  I have a Windows Server 2003 machine. Lately, I noticed on my mIRC IRC client that something is pasting out ads to 
> the current window.
> [14:40] <nickname> New threat exploits flaw in Internet Explorer - http://www
.addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&type=news&ID=2039 , please support the
m by clicking the GOOGLE AD inside the articles on the right.

OK.. now for the $64 question - was it *your* client sending those ads *out*,
or were you just on an IRC channel that had a bot that sent ad messages to
everybody on the channel?

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