[theforum] evolt.org hosting adware, other possibly suspicous accounts

Adrian Simmons adrinux at gmail.com
Thu Jul 28 09:24:23 CDT 2005


Hello again,

Also noticed while moving images to new site were several .exe files:
Ran these through ClamAV and one contains adware:

images/32630/author.exe: OK
images/49320/author.exe: OK
images/60658/author.exe: OK
images/61683/author.exe: OK
images/63830/author.exe: OK
images/64123/author.exe: Adware.Comet-2 FOUND
images/65104/author.exe: OK


So this needs to be removed and the associated account closed:
http://www.evolt.org/evolt/images/64123/author.exe


Mike sugestes that the remaining exe files are probably Frontpage related 
garbage, certainly they don't seem to contain malware. But it might be worth 
checking that the associated accounts are legitimate:
http://www.evolt.org/evolt/images/32630/author.exe
http://www.evolt.org/evolt/images/49320/author.exe
http://www.evolt.org/evolt/images/60658/author.exe
http://www.evolt.org/evolt/images/61683/author.exe
http://www.evolt.org/evolt/images/63830/author.exe
http://www.evolt.org/evolt/images/65104/author.exe

Might be more yet...

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