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Circuit City Fixes Forum Flaw That Infected IE Users

Monty Solomon (monty@roscom.com)
Mon, 5 Jun 2006 00:03:22 -0400

The company patched a customer-support message forum Web site that had
been silently installing a backdoor Trojan on visitors' PCs.

By Gregg Keizer
TechWeb.com

Jun 2, 2006 02:35 PM

Circuit City Stores Inc. on Thursday patched a customer support
message forum Web site that had been silently installing a backdoor
Trojan on visitors' PCs for more than two weeks.

Sometime on or about May 17, hackers broke into a home theater message
board on Circuit City's online site, said Bill Cimino, a spokesman for
the Richmond, Va.-based electronics retailer. "We're trying to
backtrack to when the break-in actually occurred," Cimino said Friday.

From then until Thursday, June 1, visitors to the forum who were
running unpatched versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer were
directed to a Russian-based Web site that tried to install a Trojan
horse which would give attackers full access to the compromised PC.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=188701288

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