Not sure if anyone else has experienced this, but the link in this thread loaded some wonderful spyware onto one of my test systems, which happens to be running an older version of IE. Who knows if 123 got hacked or what, but if you happen to see a blue background with bug crawling around and a lame, broken English popup telling you that you are infected with some sort of fictitious malware you should download a free program call Spybot from download.com and run it in safe mode.
To toot my own horn, I'm a Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator on Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Certified Desktop Technician, and a Microsoft Certified Professional that works for a DoD subcontractor, not some "Geek Dog" department that swindles home computer users, so I’m not crazy or dreaming this up. I tried the link again after cleaning my system, and I got the same exact spyware payload transferred onto my test machine. I'm guessing that patched versions of IE and Firefox will do a better job of preventing this, but I really don't feel like testing this hypothesis on my main system since I don't feel like loading it up with garbage. Click at your own risk is all I will say because God only knows how secure that review site really is. If anyone is interested, here's what was found on my system with AVG and Spybot.
Detected by AVG Antivirus:
Trojan Horse SHeur.BHAL
c:\documents and settings\username\local settings\temp\vjTu.exe
Detected by Spybot:
SmitFraud-C.gp
c:\windows\system32\ctfmona.exe
c:\windows\system32\ctfmonb.bmp
There was a registry key as well, but I forgot to write it down. Spybot will take care of it though.
Sorry about the thread hijack, but I figure it's better than a system hijack.
