On Tuesday 24 Jun 2008, Namita Iyer wrote: > Hi Poornima, > > You are right. The website does contain some malicious script. > > I tried accessing the website on windows using IE and it did download > a script called index.cgi which crashes all applications. Also reboot > does NOT solve the problem.
Ouch. Crashes the anti-virus application also? I have not used windows a/v for ages. I recall, a/v packages had option for DOS boot disk for such cases. Do they have option for making bootable CDs now? > Intel folks are looking into the issue. > > You can access it using a linux machine and from home (where no > software is running to check for malicious scripts :-( ) and it > should work. Aah, this explains why I did not get any warning nor was my system compromised. I am using Ubuntu desktop :) I assumed that everyone here is using an open source desktop. Seriously though, it is difficult to promote/advocate open source unless we use it ourselves. -- Arun Khan
