Clipboard hack/attack

[TWD]

Has anybody else encountered this? Apparantly there is a malwar attack of sorts stuck into a flash ad that is being displayed on several prominent websites. The attack screws up your clipboard putting a URL in it. Not even copying over new text seems to work. The attack also attacks all operating systems vista, osx, ubuntu, etc. I was browsing using firefox 3. Restarting your system fixes it.

In other news I can't seem to get into AVG. I'm not sure if this is a separate attack or part of the same. Either way AVG wont' start up, and I can't update it. I'm thinking about finally moving over to NOD32.

[kiff]

hopefully, and I sure, there will be a flash update soon. haven't seen it (the hack) yet though...

[TWD]

Here's a story about it on the register. Apparantly it's not new.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/15/webbased_clipboard_hijacking/

[Jacks:SmirkingRevenge]

In other news I can't seem to get into AVG. I'm not sure if this is a separate attack or part of the same. Either way AVG wont' start up, and I can't update it. I'm thinking about finally moving over to NOD32.

I used AVG Free until it missed some attacks and my HD became corrupted about a year and a half ago. After reformatting I bit the bullet and paid for NOD32 Home edition, haven't had a single problem since.

NOD32 is very lightweight, I've never felt comfortable running high-usage applications w/o disabling my antivirus program until I had NOD. It runs a single little kernel app that uses less than half the memory of FireFox on my machine. Despite this it's extremely well rounded and up-to-date on virus trends. By now I've had it spot a number of attack attempts all of which have been successfully stopped and/or eliminated.

I'm sure the same can be said about Kapersky or whatever the other big contenders are for light weight but effective anti-virus progs. Whichever you go with will be a huge improvement over AVG.

[TWD]

Yeah I just have to bite the bullet and pay to get copies for both my PCs.

[Nemephosis]

lol, flash ads.

[Matfei]

That's why I block *all* adds. Even reputable websites have no control over what the ad servers dish up.

[Firefly]

http://noscript.net/?ver=1.8&prev=

I use this

[Vitamin-Carrot]

THis alert seems to be 3 or 4 weeks old ...

[SlayerDragon]

BUT HOW ?

[Wormbo]

ActionScript has access to the clipboard data. GG Adobe.
JavaScript may have access, too. However, this access is disabled by default on Firefox. No idea about other browsers.

[K]

http://noscript.net/?ver=1.8&prev=

I use this
Ahh i use that too. Works too good.
It freekin blocks EVERYTHING!:tup:

[Continuum]

I remember reading this last year in a textbook that was 3-4 years old ;)

[Flak]

I've switched to Avira AntiVir (http://www.free-av.com/). It picks up SO much more than AVG. Less intrusive too.

If you install it, do these hacks (http://www.tipsfor.us/2007/08/15/make-avira-antivir-free-edition-more-usable/). You won't even know it's there.

[ilkman]

I've switched to Avira AntiVir (http://www.free-av.com/). It picks up SO much more than AVG. Less intrusive too.

If you install it, do these hacks (http://www.tipsfor.us/2007/08/15/make-avira-antivir-free-edition-more-usable/). You won't even know it's there.

I'll check them out. AVG is starting to get annoying. I tried to turn off the auto update on startup and load on startup from the msconfig menu and it seemed to do nothing but ruin everything. Talk about a touchy software.

As for flash ads, I use this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10
I'm not certain if it is supported in Firefox 3 just yet. For that reason I am sticking with v2 and Google Chrome.

By the way, can this 'hack' come from using Chrome?