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 Post subject: Live.com poisoning - Gumblar/Martuz isn't the only infection
PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 1:31 pm 
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Live.com poisoning - Gumblar/Martuz isn't the only infection around .....

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I've just had an e-mail from a friend, with the subject "Gumblar gets all the attention, but the other guys are still busy too", and he couldn't be more right - the recent spate of Gumblar/Martuz infections are garnering all of the press coverage, with the rest going relatively ignored - well I won't stand for that. There's more than one infection going around, and this particular one involves not Google poisoning - but Live poisoning (Live for those folks unaware, is Microsofts search engine).

The Live.com query was for nothing more nefarious than a cupcake recipe, and the infected domain, regishouse.org, a hacked participant.

If we look at the regishouse.org source code, we immediately notice the following;


http://hphosts.blogspot.com/2009/05/liv ... -isnt.html

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