Foes of Open Source (Trend Micro) Hit by It Also:
Hackers Attack Trend Micro
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| Researchers are still not sure how the attackers are managing to hack these
| Web pages, but the pages all seem to use Microsoft's Active Server Page (ASP)
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| technology, which is used by many Web development programs to create dynamic
| HTML pages. A software bug in any of those programs is all the attackers need
| to install their malicious code.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,143445-c,hackers/article.html
400,000+ infected web pages in a week?!
http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2008/03/14/12/52/22-400-000-infected-web-pages-in-a-
I've cleaned up my Web site. And for trolls who spreading BS, thousands of
sites including big ones like ZDNet are affected.
Hackers launch massive IFRAME attack
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| But Danchev was more pessimistic that the attacks could be halted
| quickly. "To sum up -- it's a mess," he said.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=26001482&rid=-50
Before accusing individuals, look at the Web as a whole. And if you're using
Windows, be careful of pretty much /ANY/ site you visit. The press is filled
with articles about what became a plague and nobody yet knows how many sites
are really affected.
If the trolls want to use this as a weapon of smear, they could smear a helluva
lot of Web sites, just as we could slam Trend Micro (see below).
Recent:
Boycott Trend Micro
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| The proprietary software company Trend Micro has filed a patent infringement
| lawsuit against Barracuda Networks. They claim that Barracuda is violating
| their patent by distributing the free software antivirus program ClamAV.
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| We should avoid using any proprietary software, but companies that use
| software patents for aggression are the lowest of the low.
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http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/boycottTrendMicro.html
Trend Micro patent claim provokes FOSS community, leads to boycott
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| Eben Moglen of the Software Freedom Law Center is aware of the case, and is
| considering a patent re-examination request or another intervention in the
| case.
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| Contacted by Linux.com, Barracuda's Drako acknowledged the array of reactions
| by saying, "We at Barracuda want to extend our thanks to the tremendous
| number of individuals who expressed support for our defending the use of
| ClamAV free and open source software, as well as to the community members
| that have submitted prior art."
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| If Trend Micro hasn't already, it is about to find out that the case is about
| free software after all.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/126851
Call for action: Boycott Trend Micro
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| Anti virus developer Trend Micro accused Barracuda Networks of patent
| infringement but what they really did was attacking the users of ClamAV free
| anti virus software with a bogus patent.
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http://wiki.vrijschrift.org/Call_for_action%3A_Boycott_Trend_Micro
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