Possibly yet another MS mail worm
Curtis Maurand
curtis at maurand.com
Mon Mar 1 15:38:15 UTC 2004
On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Todd Vierling wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Curtis Maurand wrote:
>
> : Sure they do....its called COM/DCOM/OLE/ActiveX or whatever they
> : want to call it this week. Its on every windows system.
>
> No, my point was that the majority of newer trojan mail viruses don't depend
> on ActiveX exploits -- they simply wait, dormant, for a n00b to click on
> this mysterious-looking Zip Folder, and the mysterious-looking EXE inside.
>
> It's as if the modern e-mail viruses are closer to human infections. Only
> the clueful are immune. 8-)
The latter is very true.
My point is that the COM/DCOM/OLE/ActiveX is what allows for a script in
an email message that gets executed to have access to the rest of the
system, rather than executing within a protected sandbox. Of course
scripts within email messages shouldn't execute at all. Once they do
execute, they have access to the OLE objects on the machine. Its a
security hole big enough to drive a tank through.
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