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. > > -- -- Curtis Maurand mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.maurand.com
