http://www.knicks49.com/mpack-the-italian-job/ Just another Filipino Programmer’s blog by Nick Fernandez III, on web development using PHP in LAMP framework and random information about everything I would tought interesting on and off the IT world. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:20:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 http://www.knicks49.com/mpack-the-italian-job/#comment-42 SecurityCzar Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:06:08 +0000 http://www.knicks49.com/mpack-the-italian-job/#comment-42 What can you do to protect yourself? For end users, keep your endpoints patched antivirus up-to-date. For Symantec users, there is a good article at sharpebusinesssolutions.com/savce_upgrade.htm describing how to keep SAV agents healthy and under support. For admins of affected web sites, a simple clean-up of the page is not sufficient - your site administrator’s credentials need to be changed. There are easy to use tools available for MPack to use to reinfect your sites even after you have manually cleaned them up. These automated tools are being fed lists of compromised site admin usernames and passwords, so make sure that you put a strong password on your site admin account. What can you do to protect yourself? For end users, keep your endpoints patched antivirus up-to-date. For Symantec users, there is a good article at sharpebusinesssolutions.com/savce_upgrade.htm describing how to keep SAV agents healthy and under support. For admins of affected web sites, a simple clean-up of the page is not sufficient - your site administrator’s credentials need to be changed. There are easy to use tools available for MPack to use to reinfect your sites even after you have manually cleaned them up. These automated tools are being fed lists of compromised site admin usernames and passwords, so make sure that you put a strong password on your site admin account.

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