Comments on: Millions of Windows Users at Risk by Massive ID and Bank Account Theft Piggybacking on CoolWebSearch

By: Joseph

Joseph — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:02:29 +0000

The management and programming staff responsible for CoolWebSearch should be sentenced to ten years in a federal prison without opportunity for parole, and fined $100K each. Things like CoolWebSearch may prove in the long run to seriously damage user Internet usage and growth. I’m at the point whereby I don’t trust any software.

By: mike1734

mike1734 — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:50:43 +0000

amazing.n’t it. the FBI and CIA cannot find terrorists, secure our borders and now let a webnsite like that run for days after they were notified. Just whose family members are involved with it?

By: razldazl

razldazl — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:24:13 +0000

When you say “Testing some of the data, they found that they had immediate easy access to personal bank accounts (so far at least 50 banks have been implicated)”, are you saying that the bank’s computers have been infected or that info from 50 personal users showed accessbile info at 50 banks? If it is the banks whose info has become infiltrated and since detection of this insidious trojan is seemingly impossible, can we get a list of the 50 known banks whose information has been compromised?

By: Davis McCarn

Davis McCarn — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 12:12:13 +0000

From your description of this nasty, I have an added concern for which I think the answer may be crucial.
Is this puppy just a keylogger, or does it scour the autocomplete sections of the registry, too?
I try to be thorough in my efforts for clients and, since the only good approach these days is to be proactive before infestation strikes (an ethic I wish was far more widespread in the IT industry), the answer to this question has a major affect on my activities.