[jdev] IMPORTANT: JSF/JabberStudio Service Update

[Matthew A. Miller]

Please constrain your posts to those specifically about Jabber development.


Thank you,

-  LW

Dan Plesse wrote:
> 1. I wish it was Spyware. 
> 2. Installing a service it is very serious breach. 
> 3. I assumed it did not come from JabberStudio
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jdev-bounces at jabber.org [mailto:jdev-bounces at jabber.org] On Behalf Of
> Julian Missig
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 4:44 PM
> To: Jabber software development list
> Subject: Re: [jdev] IMPORTANT: JSF/JabberStudio Service Update
> 
> I'm sure there are many machines in the world which have spyware 
> installed... just because yours does doesn't mean it necessarily came 
> from jabber.org.
> 
> Now, if you find one of those in any of the pieces of software listed 
> on JabberStudio, that's another thing entirely.
> 
> Julian
> 
> On 26 Jan 2005, at 16:38, Dan Plesse wrote:
> 
> 
>>Thanks for the update peter.
>>
>>I just found out that under services: Network Functions, service name:
>>cfgPrn was loading at startup c:\windows\system32\spool\nt\svchost.exe
>>which was a backdoor. Who and how did [they] do that? I also had a
>>folder called "USA AutoSpeedTester" with HideRun.exe. Apparently 
>>someone
>>needed to know how fast my connection was too.
>>

-- 
-  LW

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