On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Matt Mastracci <[email protected]>wrote:

> We started getting reports of the "HTML/Crypted.Gen" being detected in our
> Chrome extension again. I've managed to reproduce it - the signature seems
> to be the exact set of strings they use:
>
> ====
> .fromCharCode
> .charCodeAt
> nodeValue
> for
> 0,0,0,0,0,0
> Math.min
> ====
>
> I kid you not - this is their signature for an encrypted JS virus. I can't
> seem to remove a single character from any of these tokens without turning
> it from a dangerous virus to a harmless bit of JS.  Order doesn't seem to be
> important (although I haven't experimented with this that much).
>
> I think I'll be able to work around this by replacing any sequence of six
> zeros separated by commas with the sequence 0,0,0,[space]0,0,0.
>

Holy cow -- how do they think that is an acceptable measure?  Surely they
could at least change the warning to say "potentially dangerous JS" or
something rather than declaring it a virus.

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John A. Tamplin
Software Engineer (GWT), Google

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