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RE: Popup security sales gimmick

From: Optrics Engineering - Shaun Sturby, MCSE <Shaun(at)Optrics.com>
Date: Mon Dec 30 2002 - 13:30:11 EST


Here is the source of the popup page. It looks like it does just that, open a iframe to display the local drive.

<head>
<style> 

a:link			{font:8pt/11pt verdana; color:red}
a:visited		{font:8pt/11pt verdana; color:red}

</style>
<title>WARNING: No Privacy Protection Software Found</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<FONT face="verdana" size=4>

          <font color="red">WARNING:</font> Privacy Protection Software NOT DETECTED</font>

      <p><font style="COLOR: black; FONT: 8pt/11pt verdana"><b>Your Internet habits are being recorded.</font><br>

        <font size="2"><a href="download.html">CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD PRIVACY PROTECTION SOFTWARE</a></font></b> </p><BR>

          <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="1">
<tr>

    <td><script language="javascript">
if (navigator.appName=="Netscape" && navigator.appVersion.split(".")[0]==4) {
document.write("");
}
else
{
document.write("<p align='left'><iframe src='file:///C:/' height=350 width=600 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 scrolling=no frameborder=0 vspace=2></iframe></p>");
}
</script></td>
</tr>
</table>

      <h2 id="ietext" style="font:8pt/11pt verdana; color:black">209.115.181.213 - Privacy Protection Software NOT DETECTED<BR>

Do you need help?X

      </h2>
<b><font size="2"><a href="download.html">CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD PRIVACY
PROTECTION SOFTWARE!</a></font></b>
</body>
</body></html>

-----Original Message-----
From: netsec novice [mailto:netsec9@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 7:54 PM
To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
Subject: Popup security sales gimmick

I ran into this popup and initially it concerned me. I thought I would post it here for confirmation on its validity. It appears to me that this site runs a script that simply displays your c: drive contents rather than actually being able to obtain the information. I could see how it could scare some people though.

Check it out for yourself.
http://www.interneteraser.com/error.html

IMail Server has scanned this e-mail for viruses using Declude Virus from Optrics.com Received on Tue Dec 31 13:28:39 2002

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