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FlashGet Security Hole Installs Trojan

This is a quickie, but a really important quickie if you use FlashGet.

My buddy Steve Bass, in his Tips and Tweaks blog, relates the following:

I just uninstalled FlashGet, my favorite downloading program. It’s got a big, inviting security hole that can — and did — let a nasty Trojan worm its way onto my system. I’m not the only one having to fend off the attack. Users on the FlashGet and Kapersky Labs first raised the flag. [FlashGet’s Security Hole Delivers a Trojan]

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What are your thoughts?

Evan Hopkins - March 26, 2008 @ 2:34 pm

this sucks because i use flashget every day. where does the trojan come from, a website?

Bill - March 26, 2008 @ 6:32 pm

I suggest you read Steve’s article. He researched it…all I did was link to it afterward.

Francois - March 27, 2008 @ 6:11 am

Use “DownThemAll” instead, it works great for me.

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