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Re: DLL hijacking with Autorun on a USB drive


From: paul.szabo () sydney edu au
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 11:49:19 +1000

Dan Kaminsky <dan () doxpara com> wrote:

iexplore.exe has a security model. Explorer.exe doesn't ...

Very dim view. So, there is no way for a Windows user to access his
"desktop", e.g. any data on a CD or USB stick, in a safe way? Seems so
wasteful for MS to try and plug autorun viruses, then...

Thankfully, you are wrong. All decent OSs have some security. (Some are
more decent than others.)

Cheers, Paul

Paul Szabo   psz () maths usyd edu au   http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney    Australia

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