Hi All
Can anyone out there clear the FUD and speak to the less Web Savvy (like me) - I set up up a quarantine system (although still with Internet connectivity) to run the exe-cute-html but this didn't 'appear' to do anything other than display the "JUNKWARE" text.
i.e. I downloaded the zip and extracted the html and then I double-clicked on the html file so that IE(5.5) would run it.
So I presume it would be running the html from the MyComputer zone - but I didn't get a dialog box or anything.
I'm mostly interested in whether this is a big risk to the company. I'm willing to believe that users can be fooled into downloading html and opening it locally (e.g. if they think that they are downloading a useful report), but then, they can probably be fooled into downloading an exe and running it... So am I simply looking at continued Security Awareness briefings (or more draconian download restrictions) or is there a greater exposure that I'm missing.
I may have missed earlier parts of this thread so I hope I'm not going over old ground.
Regards
Bis
> From: "morning_wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Self-Executing HTML: Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0 Part IV
> Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 11:56:29 -0800
>
> > On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 22:41:35 -0000 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > Fully self-contained harmless *.exe:
> > >
> > > http://www.malware.com/exe-cute-html.zip
> > [snip]
> >
> > This doesn't look like self-executing HTML - anyway.
> >
>
> Gives dialog box to open or save a "blabla.hta" and no, it
> does not self-execute
> even under
> low security settings. try again Jelmer?
>
>
>
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