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We had a similar incident today but only one user.
Could have been a lot more if that user had not gotten
the same message at exactly the same time from 6
of his contacts and knew something was wrong and
did not click on the link.

The details at our office were different. The message
was “URGENT: Go to this web site
www.rjdesigns.co.uk/cool/” (or something very close
to that). The strange thing is that this user SWEARS
that he never clicked on the link but our logs show his
computer attempted to access that web site. Luckily
the site was down, possibly couldn’t handle the load.
Does anyone know of an exploit that combined with
the MSN exploit could redirect to a web site without
the users knowledge or action?

I'm concerned that eventually someone "smart" is
going to build a nimda like cocktail of MSN, IE and
other exploits that will spread faster than any virus
we’ve seen yet. Can anyone say ARIS ThreatCon 4?

There is some good information and a number of
links at
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/255255,
including a link to a web site at
http://tom.me.uk/msn/demo.html that is a benign
sample of how the exploit works.

Now for the good news (if there is ever good news
with a security vulnerability). The Microsoft patch
available at
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/criti
cal/q316059/default.asp at least stops the sample
posted on http://tom.me.uk/msn/demo.html from
functioning. Not sure if there are variations on the
exploit that might still work.

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