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Password-stealing attack halted
Monday, 28 June 2004 15:51 ESTA Russian website that spread a "malicious" internet program has been shut down, software giant Microsoft said, adding that users of Internet Explorer are no longer at risk. The infection, known as Download.Ject or "Scob", was not a worm or virus but was an attack launched from a web server based in Russia, which infected other web servers and caused them to direct internet users to the Russian website. "Internet service providers and law enforcement, working together with Microsoft, identified the origination point of the attack in Russia and shut it down on Thursday," Microsoft said in a statement released on the weekend.
The Download.Ject program was not a virus or computer worm, Microsoft said, describing it as a "targeted manual attack by individuals or entities towards a specific server."
Unlike viruses that spread by email, this infection was propagated simply by visiting an infected website, which can install a so-called trojan or keystroke logger that allows hackers access to the PCs, security experts said Friday.
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