p2p news / p2pnet: AMD’s website forums were apparently hacked to include a link to a malicious Windows Metafile (WMF) image hosted on toolbarsdollars.biz, says TG Daily.

"As typical with many webpages, AMD’s forum pages have external php scripts that are loaded with the iframe tag in the webpage," says the story.

"One of those scripts, in turn, calls up a 16 kilobyte image called xpladv586.wmf that was being hosted at toolbarsdollars.biz, which is a well-known adware site. Several users reported that their anti-virus and anti-adware programs detected the WMF as containing a Trojan horse and promptly sent the file into quarantine. They have also posted several pages worth of messages to other forum members detailing what they did to clean up their computers and stop future threats."

"this is weird," posted Sempron last Saturday.

"each page i load while browsing this board, i get a java script pop up/explorer prompt with a bung of gibberish and the windows image view opens up too.
"i have to keep clicking on cancel repeatedly to get rid of the popup script
"i’m using maxthon but it also happens with internet explorer.
"i have also rebooted and it still happens.
"anybody else having this problem today?"

Forum officials say the problem has been fixed, "but they aren’t saying how the attackers accessed the webpages in the first place," says TG Daily, adding:

"We called AMD officials have not yet commented on the hacked forums."

Also See:
TG Daily – AMD’s forums hacked, January 30, 2006

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