FlashGet Security Hole Installs Trojan
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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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Evan Hopkins
March 26th, 2008
at 2:34pm
this sucks because i use flashget every day. where does the trojan come from, a website?
Bill
March 26th, 2008
at 6:32pm
I suggest you read Steve’s article. He researched it…all I did was link to it afterward.
Francois
March 27th, 2008
at 6:11am
Use “DownThemAll” instead, it works great for me.