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11 Responses to “Clipboard Virus? Not exactly, but still dangerous.”

1. on 21 Aug 2008 at 2:24 pm1Sonic Purity

   The Business end/SunBelt link is broken. Too bad… it looked interesting.

   Thanks for your article!

   ))Sonic((

   Editor: Update: Fixed / Thanks!

2. on 22 Aug 2008 at 12:09 pm2SirTazofMania

   IEPro is an addon for Internet Explorer and has a Flash Blocker. Not sure is this will block the Flash script allowing access to the clipboard though.

   SirTazofMania

3. on 22 Aug 2008 at 5:28 pm3» Malicious ads attack, spread via clipboard « .: GAFNO.com - Hot World News Blog :.

   […] clipboard extender for Windows, gave an interesting description of the situation on his Clipboard Extender Dot Com blog: “Someone wrote a little piece of Adobe Flash code to copy text to the clipboard. Then […]

4. on 22 Aug 2008 at 9:35 pm4Malicious Flash ads attack, spread via clipboard - Live FTA - Satellite Forums

   […] clipboard extender for Windows, gave an interesting description of the situation on his Clipboard Extender Dot Com blog: "Someone wrote a little piece of Adobe Flash code to copy text to the clipboard. Then they […]

5. on 26 Aug 2008 at 1:39 am5Data Security Podcast

   […] Chris Thornton from Thornsoft Development, Inc. and the author of ClipMate, a popular clipboard extender for Windows provides an excellent resource on his blog about the Flash Clipboard Attack. […]

6. on 12 Sep 2008 at 6:18 pm6LiteralDan

   I was hit with this when visiting Digg, and I was glad to find this page discussing my exact problem. I’ve Dugg it (and Shouted it) and Stumbled it. Thanks for gathering all this information, providing a solution, and helping me regain my sanity!

7. on 28 Sep 2008 at 4:40 pm7Heather

   I was just hit with this while visiting Photobucket. Urgghh.

8. on 06 Oct 2008 at 1:39 pm8Berry

   ClipGuru, a free clipboard manager from HTConsulting - http://clipguru.com - attempts to notify users of Windows clipboard hijacking. It does not prevent the attack, since it is under Windows clipboard control, but it does notify of it.

9. on 07 Oct 2008 at 12:04 pm9UNSEEN

   Just got hit by this one and your site explained the problem. Thanks.

10. on 07 Oct 2008 at 1:03 pm10Chris Thornton

    Update: Adobe is fixing this in the upcoming Flash Player 10, which will require user interaction before allowing clipboard access.
    http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/116338
    http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1948

11. on 29 Dec 2008 at 6:53 pm11Leea Quillen

    I have had this happen at work recently; are there any updates on how to fix an “infected” machine? I am working on updates to Flash 10, but have had 3 machines get hit with this in the last month…

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