Even experts get viruses
By Adam Gaffin, NetworkWorld.com, 05/03/05
Darren Miller, a network security consultant with DefendingTheNet.com and ParaLogic, describes how he fell for a particularly specialized attack. He writes articles on network security and submits them to Web sites, many of which then publish them. Typically, the sites send him e-mail to let him know where his articles are; he clicked on the link on one such message and it took him to a site that loaded something onto his machine to screw with his TCP/IP stack:
... The computers local drives were imaged to preserve their current state. The images were then submitted to our Anti-Virus and Firewall vendor research teams. As of today, they have not been able to determine the exact cause of the problem. They do know something malicious is going on, and are looking closely at the TCP/IP stack and system process. Short-term investigation points in the direction of one of these components being modified or corrupted. It's quite possible that a new vulnerability exists and I'm fairly confident they will be able to pinpoint it.
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