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RE: help:// protocol in Windows XP Prof
From: "Rocky Heckman" <rocky.he () g-wizinnovations com>
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 09:03:54 +1000
This is pretty good, but keep in mind that it will no longer work on Windows XP SP2 enabled machines. IE now actively prevents these sorts of things from executing. RH -----Original Message----- From: Calderon, Juan Carlos (GE Commercial Finance, NonGE) [mailto:juan.calderon () ge com] Sent: Friday, 9 July 2004 3:25 AM To: Jordan Cole (stilist); Bartosz Kwitkowski Cc: vuln-dev () securityfocus com Subject: RE: help:// protocol in Windows XP Prof <.a href="javascript:loadWin()" title="help://www.product.com/help" onmouseover="window.status='help://www.product.com/help';return true" onmouseout="window.status='';return true"> just my two cents -----Original Message----- From: Jordan Cole (stilist) [mailto:stilist () gmail com] Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 8:13 PM To: Bartosz Kwitkowski Cc: vuln-dev () securityfocus com Subject: Re: help:// protocol in Windows XP Prof If you could get it to work in a link, it would make for a good exploit... "Click here to read the help file for this application." Have that link to a malware-enabled website or something similar, and you've got another unsuspecting user infected. On the other hand, you could just create a link that /appears/ to be pointing to a help:// url... <.html> <.head> <.script language='javascript1.2'> function loadWin(){ window.open('http://www.google.com/','Help for [product]','resizable=yes,width=500,height=400, top=10, left=10'); } <./script> <./head> <.body> <.a href="javascript:loadWin()" title="help://www.product.com/help">Read the help file</a> <./body> <./html> I tried to make the statusbar reflect the apparent help:// url, but couldn't remember how (despite a quick google). While it's unlikely most users would even notice the help:// part, those who do would simply assume it's some weird thing like ftp://... they don't know what it does, but it apparently works. -- [stlst]
Current thread:
- RE: help:// protocol in Windows XP Prof, (continued)
- RE: help:// protocol in Windows XP Prof Rocky Heckman (Jul 09)
- Re: help:// protocol in Windows XP Prof Derek Kwan (Jul 08)
- RE: help:// protocol in Windows XP Prof Lucas ValdeĆ³n (Jul 08)
- Re: help:// protocol in Windows XP Prof Jordan Cole (stilist) (Jul 08)
- Re: help:// protocol in Windows XP Prof pingywon MCSE (Jul 12)
- Re: help:// protocol in Windows XP Prof Bartosz Kwitkowski (Jul 12)
- Re: help:// protocol in Windows XP Prof Bartosz Kwitkowski (Jul 08)
- RE: help:// protocol in Windows XP Prof Weltha, Nick [ADM] (Jul 08)
- RE: help:// protocol in Windows XP Prof Calderon, Juan Carlos (GE Commercial Finance, NonGE) (Jul 08)
- RE: help:// protocol in Windows XP Prof Tyler Durden (Jul 09)
- RE: help:// protocol in Windows XP Prof Rocky Heckman (Jul 09)