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January 23, 2005

Bad publicity better than no publicity??

It appears as if I've named my site after a Trojan horse: From the Symantec Security Response Database, Trojan.NetBuie.A is a Trojan horse that comes disguised as an XBox emulator. According to Symantec,

Its only purpose is to produce periodic hits on a specific Internet Web page. (At the time that this write-up was published, the Web site had been removed.)

Truthfully, I registered my domain long before this virus appeared, but nobody will care about that. All that will matter is that my site has the same name as a documented Trojan horse.

That's just great. Thanks to the losers that wrote the thing. I'm sure it's just a matter of time before my site is blocked by URL filters everywhere. My company uses Webwasher, so I'll know the reason when I won't be able to access my own site from work.

Nuts.

Posted by jbuie at January 23, 2005 10:32 AM
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