Identify/React Chart: Bofra
White Papers The Bofra worms exploit a serious IFRAME flaw in Internet Explorer 6 and pose a serious threat to unpatched systems. TechRepublic's Identify/React chart for Bofra puts critical information for identifying and eliminating the virus right at your...
[May 19, 2006, 0:00]
Bofra Exploit Ticks Away At Microsoft
News After more than two weeks of investigating the IFRAME Bofra exploit, Microsoft has yet to announce when it will be able to fix the problem. In a prepared email statement from the company, a spokesperson said: "Microsoft is actively investigating...
[November 26, 2004, 11:30]
Bofra Exploit Ticks Away At Microsoft
Talkback Ive had mozilla Firefox as my browser for a couple of months now and I have not looked back ,apart when its time for window's updates, then I have to use creaky old explorer, and it takes an age to load up properly half the functions dont work!
[November 30, 2004, 14:49]
Hackers Launch Bofra Banner Ad Attacks
Talkback this is password hacking yeas
[November 28, 2004, 22:33]
Bofra Exploit Ticks Away At Microsoft
Talkback Amen, Chris. Been using Mozilla for a few months and not a problem has arisen.
[November 28, 2004, 22:28]
Hackers Launch Bofra Banner Ad Attacks
Talkback What's worse, actually, is that users needn't even click the ad to get exploited - the IFRAME attack could hit users that just *viewed* the advertisement. Scary.
[November 28, 2004, 0:56]
Bofra Exploit Ticks Away At Microsoft
Talkback I've been quite impressed with Firefox 1.0 so far. I'd read that a lot of company internal systems were written to only work with IE and would block or break other browsers, but I've used Fiefox with all my internal browser-based company systems...
[November 26, 2004, 15:33]
Bofra Exploit Ticks Away At Microsoft
Talkback Hee hee, Chris - You are dead right.
[November 26, 2004, 12:29]
Bofra Exploit Ticks Away At Microsoft
Talkback A patch exists already - it's called FireFox. Or Mozilla. Or Opera. The only other choice for W2K or pre-SP2 XP users who can't upgrade is to keep off the Internet until MS can offer a fix of its own.
[November 26, 2004, 11:54]
Bofra Exploit Ticks Away At Microsoft
Talkback I have tried Firefox but I have a repeated problem with it. Far too many sites when accessed cause the message this document has no data'. I have assumed that they were gormless sites which would only work with IE.
[December 1, 2004, 5:22]
Microsoft Patches Bofra
News The vulnerability, dubbed the Internet Explorer Elements flaw by Microsoft, is also known as the IFRAME vulnerability, or Bofra exploit. The viruses, called Bofra.A and Bofra.B by antivirus companies, were loosely based on the source code of MyDoom.
[December 2, 2004, 7:15]
Gartner: Beware Of Bofra Exploit
News Analyst firm Gartner has predicted that attacks using the Bofra (buffer overflow frame exploit) or IFRAME exploit will become more common, especially around systems with sloppy patching. The Bofra attack exploits an unpatched Internet Explorer 6.0...
[November 25, 2004, 15:50]
Hackers Launch Bofra Banner Ad Attacks
News Hackers have already attacked several European Web sites using the as yet un-patched IFRAME exploit, otherwise known as Bofra, in Internet Explorer 6.0. The Storm Center received a report of a high profile UK Web site that contains a pointer on...
[November 22, 2004, 14:05]
Microsoft Complains About 'irresponsible' Security Revelation
News Microsoft has slammed the people responsible for publishing details of the vulnerability that has lead to the creation of the bofra virus. The bofra virus, which antivirus companies initially believed to be a MyDoom variant, emerged on Monday after...
[November 10, 2004, 11:28]
Malware Authors Exploit Microsoft's Monthly Cycles
News The creators of the Bofra worm, which exploits the recently discovered IFRAME vulnerability in Internet Explorer, may have timed the release of their worm to throw Microsoft's monthly patch cycle into disarray, say security experts.
[November 10, 2004, 10:18]
Government Says Finnish With IE 6
News A government agency in Finland is urging the country's citizens to avoid use of Internet Explorer until Microsoft has patched the Bofra vulnerability. The Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority (FICORA) said users should adopt a different...
[November 26, 2004, 12:35]
'Swiss Army Knife' Virus Appears In A Weekend
News Versions A, B and C of the Bofra (buffer overflow frame exploit) worm were first thought to be the most recent additions to the MyDoom family, which targets a weakness in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.
[November 9, 2004, 13:53]
