Re: How to....

[Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>]

On 2005-09-29 Greg wrote:
> > This is stupid. You can always assign an icon to one application from
> > another and trick someone into running it.
>
> Exactly the thing that gets said before the shit hits the fan in the
> end. You ought to recognise a problem by now.
>
> > This is not low-level security at all, this is by design.
>
> This isn't a design thing and if that is what you see it as, then you
> don't realise what has happened. Look again.

*sigh*

The real issue at hand here is people having admin privileges when they
shouldn't. As others have pointed out before: if malware get's executed
with admin privs, you're toast. Period. It's utterly futile to worry
about stuff like "could change a shortcut's icon" when it comes to this.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
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