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On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 08:06:04AM -0600, SnowDog wrote:
> > What operating system do you have installed? What browser? What email
> > client? Do you have a virusscanner? Is it updated frequently?
> > Do you only visit the e-gold site only by manually entering
> > https://use.e-gold.com/ in your browser address box? Do you have a
> > secure password?
> 
> The only other thing I would add is that I always access my account through
> the SRK mouse-click entry system, without exception. There are some trojans
> out there which can log your key strokes and send them across the internet
> to the thief who wrote the trojan, but I can't imagine how anyone could
> capture your mouse-clicks using the SRK.

Theoretically a trojan could read the value of the (password) inputboxes
in the active window. I guess that this isn't too hard to do with some
Windows DDE. Maybe password boxes are protected from DDE access, but then
the trojan could do a memory diff between the page load and the button click
call. Or just patch IE to capture them.

Joris Bontje
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