[VV-talk] Re: <VV> EBay heads up (no Corvair but very useful if you buy or sell Corvair stuff on eBay!)

[Charles Lee]

Just clicking on the button connects them to your computer, and in less time 
than it takes to say "I shouldn't have done that !" they have installed 
Spyware on your computer that "echoes" your key strokes to them, and so your 
"encrypted" passwords are sent to them, because they can see each key you 
press.

The blank screen probably just makes you wait for something to show up, 
while it's installing its spyware.

Chaz



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan and Clare Wesson" <alan.wesson@atlas.co.uk>
To: <virtualvairs@corvair.org>; <VV-talk@corvair.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 9:42 AM
Subject: Re: [VV-talk] Re: <VV> EBay heads up (no Corvair but very useful if 
you buy or sell Corvair stuff on eBay!)


> Ken wrote:
>
>> No legitimate e-mail will ask for personal information unless you have 
>> specifically requested something from the site.  Any unsolicited request 
>> for information is a case of "phishing" which seeks to gain that 
>> information for illegal use.
>
> I know that - that's why I always visit www.ebay.com (sorry - I mistyped 
> it earlier!) to do things like that.
>
> What worried me about the ones today was that they had buttons to click, 
> and out of curiosity I clicked one, to see what kind of page it took me to 
> (I obviously wasn't going to type anything in!).
>
> What put the wind up me was that the page was just totally blank, and I am 
> worried it was trying to install spyware or trojans or something. I have a 
> Norton firewall and it didn't bring anything up, and neither did scans 
> with Norton, Ad Aware and Spybot, but it was still worrying and I wished I 
> hadn't been curious enough to click on the button.
>
> And I was just plain annoyed that they used the fact that I had been 
> hacked into before! That in itself was mystifying, because I had 
> absolutely never visited a 'phish' site, I have the Norton I mentioned 
> before and I don't give out my passwords, so I was then and am now 
> mystified as to how it happened.
>
> Cheers
>
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