2009/11/12 Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ) <ife...@google.com>: > This is really getting into fantasy-land... Writing a file and hoping that > the user actually opens up explorer/finder/whatever and browses to some > folder deep within the profile directory, and then double clicks something? > Telling a user "click here and run blah to get a pony" is so much easier.
So first off that only addresses one of the two attacks I listed. But even that case I don't think is that fantasy-y. The whole point of writing actual files is so that users can interact with the files, right? In doing so they'll be just a double-click away from running arbitrary malicious code. No warning dialogs or anything. Instead the attacker has a range of social engineering opportunities using file icon and name as to make doubleclicking the file inviting. Like I said, I think this might be possible to work around in the implementation by making sure to neuter all executable files before they go to disk. / Jonas
