Re: Questions about Naughty Robot (fwd)

[Jeremiah A Blatz <jer+@andrew.cmu.edu>]

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Genocide <gen2600@aracnet.com> writes:
>         I got this message (on a system that I am webmaster on) regarding
> something that sounded so stupid it made me chuckle...Naughty Robot...I
> have enclosed the message below.  If any of you have any idea what this
> user is talking about, any info would be appreciated.
<snip>
> >> I had a customer in Tennesee who got an E-Mail saying that Naughty Robot
> >> has infected your host computer and consider all your credit cards
> >> stolen.
> >> 
> >> I think it's a hoax, but the Admins at VR-NET Cafe say that they have
> >> been hit with it and say that it's a script that does hack into the
> >> IPS's server and sits back and watches the users browse the web and take
> >> the info they see on there screen and dump to some remote server??
> >> 
> >> I was wondering if you have heard about it...and if so can you direct to
> >> the right locations on the web to get the "Official" Scoop on it?

It could theoretically be a JavaScript that makes a teeny tiny window
and reports back stuff that it really shouldn't be able to see, I
think Netscape fixed that bug, though.

FWIW,
Jer

"standing on top of the world/ never knew how you never could/ never knew
 why you never could live/ innocent life that everyone did" -Wormhole

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