news.yahoo.com — Security researchers at Trend Micro Inc. have pinpointed RSS as a lucrative target for future bot worm attacks. "RSS feed hijacking will become commonplace when Microsoft ships IE7, a browser refresh that will feature built-in RSS support."
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skipgamerNov 30, 2005
Makes me glad that Ive never bothered to touch RSS and that I wont be using IE7... dugg
maxreboNov 30, 2005
This will be just like other spam and viruses. For those who know better, there may be little to no threat. For the rest, well... they'll blame somebody other than themselves.I recently spoke with a co-worker who blamed Microsoft for the malware infestation on his home PC. If he had been using AV and firewall software he would not have the problems. I'm sure he went nuts clicking things he shouldn't have been...
pudquickDec 1, 2005
FUD FUD FUD FUD FUD.Great and all, but this would require the ability to launch whatever it downloaded. RSS, as it currently functions, doesn't do this inherently. Building this feature into IE 7 would be asking for problems. No other RSS-enabled browser has auto-download and auto-launch capabilities for feeds.So how would the virus payload get launched? By a pre-existing virus/piece of code, of course ... which anti-virus companies kill already. So if all the launchers are killed, so what if you download new copies? They'll stay inert unless they get downloaded to some place that auto-launched on your machine. It will be really tough to pervert RSS into this.FUD FUD FUD FUD FUD. "RSS in Title = Viewers". No digg.
mantusDec 1, 2005Submitter
<a class="user" href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/ie7/default.mspx">http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/ie7/default.mspx</a>corrected url for IE7, i'm retarded and put a period on the end.
emildewDec 1, 2005
coreburn said:"With the kind of spam I get, I don't see how anyone could make any money off it... some is so garbled it bearly qualifies as any written language.. ."Somebody clicks links and buys, otherwise they wouldn't bother.