Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 16:04:30 -0500 From: Sean Michael Whipkey <highway@cstone.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Jonathan Chen <jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Good times" `virus' now a real possibility... Message-ID: <3829DDDE.9882F9E7@cstone.net> References: <19991111091605.A28643@jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz> <19991110153657.22447@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Thursday, 11 November 1999 at 9:16:05 +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: > > Check out: > > > > http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9911/09/seinfeld.virus.ap/index.html > > > > Looks like the "Good Times" virus is now a definite possiblity, thanks > > to Microsoft. > > Right, I heard that on the news this morning. Does anybody know how > it works? Does anybody have one they can send me? There was a discussion on this at the USENIX Security Symposium in August in DC. Basically, Outlook uses IE to view certain types of mail. It's possible to use Visual Basic and/or ActiveX to force Internet Explorer to execute arbitrary commands on the receiving computer - simply by viewing the HTML that the e-mail is written in. There are ways to disable it, but they're rather obscure at times. Joe Average-User won't know to do it. Makes me glad I'm out of tech support. :-) SeanMike -- Sean Michael Whipkey - highway@cstone.net - www.cstone.net Engineering Department, Cornerstone Networks, Inc. - 804.817.7000 Report spam with full headers to: spam-report@cstone.net - TINLC Happiness is mandatory. Are you happy, citizen? - _Paranoia_ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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