borfast Posted February 8, 2005 Posted February 8, 2005 Yep, just saw that on Slashdot. Coolest thing in the world: this one affects every browser out there except..... get this.... <drum rolls>.... Internet Explorer!! It's about time, I'd say Moving for organization. Quote
jnorris Posted March 5, 2005 Posted March 5, 2005 Yep, just saw that on Slashdot. Coolest thing in the world: this one affects every browser out there except..... get this.... <drum rolls>.... Internet Explorer!! It's about time, I'd say Yeah, they were to busy finding a bigger exploit security researchers are reporting a new vulnerability in SP2 that could allow a malicious Web site to deposit an attack program on a user's system. The attack utilizes Internet Explorer's drag-and-drop features and the Windows "shell folders" to copy an executable from a malicious Web site to a user's startup folder, from which it would execute the next time the user logged on. The researcher who reported the problem to security mailing lists provided proof-of-concept code that leaves a file named "malware.exe" in the user's startup folder. This is after the hot fix read the rest here http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1637596,00.asp Quote
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