Clipboard hijackings continue – incidents seen at photobucket.com and forums.guru3d.com
Kimberley pinged me about the incidents -she has a write-up here:
http://www.bluetack.co.uk/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=18064&view=findpost&p=89528
I haven’t been able to reproduce the problem so can’t confirm what the source is.
There are a couple of things to bear in mind when examining incidents such as this one.
- If affected by the clipboard hijack, you will not regain control of your clipboard unless and until you close the web page that is hosting the malicious code/SWF that is the source of the hijack. Therefore, if an affected user has more than one page open, it is important not to immediately allocate blame to the site that the user is currently viewing. Any page that is open in the background is a potential source of the problem.
- You do not need to reformat your computer, or take any special steps, to take back control of your clipboard and change its content. Simply close the web page that is hosting the hijack and then copy fresh content to the clipboard.
The clipboard hijacking problem will be addressed by the Adobe Flash 10 – cite: http://blogs.adobe.com/psirt/2008/09/clipboard_attack_update.html. Note that the announcement was made on September 10 – let’s hope that Adobe’s idea of “soon” is not too far away.
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