| spyware
I received a note from Marja-Leena this afternoon...
Something strange has been occurring when I open your blog - a document "hta.php" automatically downloads to my desktop. It seems harmless but very odd - thought you would want to know. I wonder if it's just my machine...?
It wasn't just her machine. I responded back...
It looks like spyware. I just got off the phone with my ISP and it appears that they got it in their system and it's being downloaded from sites they host that have cgi-scripts. He is backing up sites from the 29th which is before it appeared. Somehow it got on their system and is being propogated through those hosted with them. It appears to be all over the web. It started around 9 hours ago. It is not clear if it actually does anything.
May spyware creators rot in hell. Bastards!
Marja-Leena is on a Mac and they are not affected much by spyware but her husband is on a PC at work and they use Spybot-Search & Destroy. He says it works. I downloaded it and it removed a bunch of spyware. It's free, too. |
