[DM-MUG] Finder Issue (Trojan)

Tue Dec 1 11:38:13 CST 2009

Your airport extreme has the ability to show dynamic bookmarks, which is
what these are. I would look in there to see what settings related to
bonjour you have turned on.
-- 
Jon Thompson
Evolve
www.dmevolve.com

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Alan Maupin <alan.maupin at gmail.com> wrote:

> I moved my Mac to a new location across town and connected to a completely
> different wireless access point with the same Qwest DSL service (may be a
> different point of presence).   There is nothing in the Share items now.  At
> my home the Mac Air, MacBook and MacPro would display as they are all setup
> for sharing, plus the random URLs.
>
>
> On Nov 30, 2009, at 10:14 PM, AB wrote:
>
> It's a gremlin!. . .  Or maybe H1N1, bird, swine, west nile flu. Seriously,
> it'd probably drive me nuts.
>
> Alan, Is there an off chance a third party thing in your System Preferences
> panel is the culprit?
> Does it appear in all the user accounts? Can you make a new user account,
> and see if it appears?
>
> -A.
>
> --- On *Mon, 11/30/09, Jon Thompson <jthompson-lists at dmevolve.com>* wrote:
>
> From: Jon Thompson <jthompson-lists at dmevolve.com>
> Subject: Re: [DM-MUG] Finder Issue (Trojan)
> To: "Des Moines Mac Users Group" <dmmug at dmmug.org>
> Date: Monday, November 30, 2009, 12:09 PM
>
> My gut instinct is that it is NOT a virus, however, I wanted to eliminate
> that as a possibility, which Alan has done. This behavior is a normal
> behavior of Wide Area Bonjour, which is regulated by your DNS server. I have
> intentionally configured DNS servers to do this exact thing. However, I have
> yet to figure out how exactly it is populating the dynamic bookmarks without
> your prior knowledge, which is what I believe it is doing.
>
> --
> Jon Thompson
> Evolve
> www.dmevolve.com
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:34 AM, AB <anastasia_prittee at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> My gut instinctively pegged it for a virus/trojan.... but I've never had
> one on a Mac. I'd still send a report to the URLs popping up, because it's
> bad for their reputation, assuming they are a legitimate business. If it's
> the same URL popping up in the Shared Devices list in the Sidebar, there's
> the FBI Internet Crimes website you can file a report at in full detail. I
> did that after I got phishing emails from banks I don't even bank at.
>
> Can you use Time Machine to restore it to an earlier date?
>
>
> --- On *Mon, 11/30/09, Alan Maupin <alan.maupin at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
> From: Alan Maupin <alan.maupin at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [DM-MUG] Finder Issue
> To: "Des Moines Mac Users Group" <dmmug at dmmug.org>
> Date: Monday, November 30, 2009, 9:23 AM
>
> Yes still there.
>
> On Nov 30, 2009, at 10:13 AM, Jon Thompson wrote:
>
> I wasn't concerned with the trojan being on your computer as so much as the
> trojan modifying your DNS settings, which are tied with the mDNS that you
> see in the Shared list.
> Am I correct in you saying that the items are still there?
> --
> Jon Thompson
> Evolve
> www.dmevolve.com
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Alan Maupin <alan.maupin at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=alan.maupin@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
>
>> Jon here is a newer article that mentions the trojan spoke of in the
> previous article you sent, with an updated look at Snow Leopards defense:
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=4139
>
> On Nov 30, 2009, at 8:51 AM, Jon Thompson wrote:
>
> Alan,
>
> Try running the commands in this article, as these types of things could
> appear if you are using a DNS server that is not one given to you by your
> ISP.
>
> http://www.macworld.com/article/60823/2007/10/trojanhorse.html
>
> I'm giving you this as a precaution, as well as to eliminate it as a
> possibility.
> --
> Jon Thompson
> Evolve
> www.dmevolve.com
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Alan Maupin <alan.maupin at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=alan.maupin@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
>
>> AB thank you very much for this information.  You are quite the internet
>> sleuth!
>>
>>
>> On Nov 29, 2009, at 7:21 PM, AB wrote:
>>
>> When typing in wildfire.gigya.com I got a "directory not listed" message,
> see screenshot.
> I went to the gigya.com website. It is a social media and content
> management internet based company with offices in CA, NY, and Israel.
>
> Perhaps they can investigate their own security on their servers since the
> discussion thread mentioned it was a leak in the respective company's
> network servers.
>
> here's the contact info for them.
>
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> information.
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>
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>
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> --- On *Sun, 11/29/09, Victoria L. Herring <vlh at herringlaw.com<http://mc/compose?to=vlh@herringlaw.com>
> >* wrote:
>
> From: Victoria L. Herring <vlh at herringlaw.com<http://mc/compose?to=vlh@herringlaw.com>
> >
> Subject: Re: [DM-MUG] Finder Issue
> To: "Des Moines Mac Users Group" <dmmug at dmmug.org<http://mc/compose?to=dmmug@dmmug.org>
> >
> Cc: alan.maupin at gmail.com <http://mc/compose?to=alan.maupin@gmail.com>
> Date: Sunday, November 29, 2009, 5:57 PM
>
> you can go to Apple.com and set up a phone support call and explain the
> whole problem in the message so the person you speak to has an idea of the
> reason for the support call.  Seems easier than going out to the Apple Store
> - maybe a first step.
> I certainly don't know but if you are having things show up in the finder
> window you might go to the Prefs for Finder and check on what is listed as
> contents on sidebar =- I don't know what Neighborhood would be other than
> perhaps you have Bluetooth or Bonjour enabled???  And they/it are picking up
> signals??
>
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Alan Maupin <alan.maupin at gmail.com>wrote:
> The problem is located in Finder application, on the Shared menu, under the
> submenu All:   random named URL's are showing up and are listed as
> Neighborhood.
>
> The most recent URL to show up is "wildfire.gigya.com"
>
> It does not go away with a reboot.
>
> Does anyone know what causes this issue?  Is it a security issue?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Alan
>
> <Screen shot 2009-11-29 at 6.11.32 PM.png>
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