Re: Please tell me I'm wrong: microsoft.com infected

From: Benjamin Franz (snowhareat_private)
Date: Wed Sep 19 2001 - 15:01:32 PDT

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    On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Steve Cody wrote:
    
    > I just went to http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage, and my Symantec
    > Norton Antivirus popped up and denied access to readme.eml.
    >
    > I could not view the source of the loaded page, so I can't verify that
    > it is definitely infected.
    
    From the bottom of the page served from that URL:
    
    window.open("readme.eml", null, "resizable=no,top=6000,left=6000")
    
    I would call that a definite "Yes".
    
    -- 
    Benjamin Franz
    
      Programs must be written for people to read, and only
      incidentally for machines to execute.
                                 ---Abelson and Sussman
    
    
    
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