IIS is an 'Internet Information Server' - a web server running microsoft software to host the websites.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Jens Bladt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 06 July 2004 10:22 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: SV: Windows Scob virus collects passwords, financial > data; Macintosh unaffected > > > Thankas for the info. > What is ISS? > > Jens Bladt > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt > > > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: Antonio Aparicio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sendt: 6. juli 2004 11:17 > Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Emne: OT: Windows Scob virus collects passwords, financial > data; Macintosh unaffected > > > For those on the list who beleive windows is safe:� > > "Hackers sent a chill across the Web last week when they > engineered a way to take over Microsoft-designed Web servers > [IIS] to spread a virus onto Windows PCs. The virus was > planted on Windows computers when they visited Web sites that > had been attacked. Macintosh computers were not affected...," > Al Fasoldt reports for The Syracuse Post-Standard. > > "The breach in IIS security is considered extremely grave, > considering the way hackers forced the IIS systems to become > virus servers. Basically, when a Windows PC running Internet > Explorer asked for a page from one of the hacked Web sites, > it got both the page and the Scob Trojan at the same time. > There was no outward sign that anything was amiss. Internet > experts pointed out that the infected Web sites were all > standard sites - all 'trusted sites,' in the words of one of > the security experts," Fasoldt reports. "... [The Scob Trojan > works by] logging keystrokes on the infected Windows computer > with the aim of collecting passwords and financial data." > > "This much was known as of midweek: Only Windows computers > are affected... if they use Internet Explorer... There is no > fix for the problem as of yet... The version of Internet > Explorer used on Macintosh computers is safe. Apple > Computer's own browser, Safari, is also safe. Apple's > Macintoshes do not work the way Windows computers do, and > viruses aren't able to get the same kind of foothold on > Macs... Web servers other than IIS were not vulnerable to > this attack," Fasoldt reports. > > Antonio > > > >
