Et al,
Just thought I'd post this for other users and viewers to peruse at their leisure.
See:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20099421-245/google-users-in-iran-targeted-in-ssl-spoof/?tag=contentMain;contentBody re: Spoofed and Invalid CA certificates.
I come here every week or so to see what is out there as far as malware trends are going. Looks like the latest and greatest (sadly) is the one currently known as 'Enhanced Protection Virus'. I wish Essexboy all the best in finding a successful resolution for the two users whom currently have this rogue program on their machines.
If we have known spoofed CA's, then is this not a part of the problem with Google Re-direct, since we don't really know for sure where the browser is ending up at?
Note, too, the link provided for the program called 'Covergence', at the bottom of the blog, which is said to analyze for certificate revocations, that does not work on my machine. When the add-on is run in FF 6.0, it says it is
not compatible.
As always, I run my browser in a sandbox to test before installing anything like this. Could this affect proper operation? Why would it say 'incompatible' if it is supposed to run on FF?
Just a question, if anyone cares to explain possible reasons.
I sure some have seen this blog, but just want to make sure everyone here at this forum knows about it.
mchain
XP Home Edition SP 3 P4 2 GB RAM Avast! Free Edition v. 6.0.1203