by Andrew Johnstone
I was browsing through google for any new information on large scale PHP deployments, and to my surprise I got a message telling me my machine had been infected! Considering I am very careful what I run on my machine, and haven’t had a virus on my computer in over two or more years I was quite surprised. Admitedly I have installed applications that do contain spyware, and I quite promptly physically remove them from the registry, the file system, and ensuring that any application hooks are also removed.
I immediately ran an antivirus program and a number of other applications to ensure nothing was ary, which picked up nothing. Anyway heres the amusing little picture
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Andrew Johnstone is a software engineer / lead developer working at Everlution Software.
Elliot Anderson
December 18th, 2005 at 10:48 pm
I got the same thing the other day.
The strange part is I only run on OS X and my network is tightly firewalled/
Aaron Brazell
December 18th, 2005 at 11:40 pm
I bet it was the Google Desktop sending those requests. :p
Andrew M. Johnstone
December 19th, 2005 at 1:16 am
Something that Nick Loeve mentioned that it could be is Poisoning DNS Cache, basically altering a DNS cache at your ISP, which is apparently is a fault in how DNS servers work, and allowing you to hijack DNS requests to the poisoned network.