Arun Khan wrote: > 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? > >
Same here. Not seen a virus for ages now and have no idea of how to tackle them. Thats why I am still figuring out how to fix the machine :-( >> 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. > > Preethi (Intel) pointed out that there were issues with accessing the website using firefox. I tried it on IE to check if that was indeed the case. (Of course, it wasn't.) Namita
