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Re: Internet Explorer 7 - Still Spyware Writers' Heaven
From: "Joshua Gimer" <jgimer () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 13:15:35 -0700
If Microsoft is not planning on providing a fix for this until Vista, I can see a worm coming from this. Forgive me if I don't know how this works in the windows world, but when it is looking for this DLL, does it take the first one that it finds within your path; like in UNIX? Or does it look in all directories within your path and then decide? I am guessing the former, but I am just clarifying. On 11/3/06, Eliah Kagan <degeneracypressure () gmail com> wrote:
On 11/2/06, Roger A. Grimes wrote: > So, if you're statement is accurate that malware would need to be placed > in a directory identified by the PATH statement, we can relax because > that would require Administrator access to pull off. Admin access would > be needed to modify the PATH statement appropriately to include the > user's desktop or some other new user writable location or Admin access > would be needed to copy a file into the locations indicated by the > default PATH statement. It would not require *administrator* access--non-administrator users can still add things to their own PATHs, just not to the universal, system PATH. (See Control Panel > System > Advanced > Environment Variables.) -Eliah
-- Thx Joshua Gimer
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Current thread:
- Internet Explorer 7 - Still Spyware Writers' Heaven avivra (Nov 01)
- Re: Internet Explorer 7 - Still Spyware Writers' Heaven Roger A. Grimes (Nov 02)
- Re: Internet Explorer 7 - Still Spyware Writers' Heaven Eliah Kagan (Nov 03)
- Re: Internet Explorer 7 - Still Spyware Writers' Heaven Thierry Zoller (Nov 04)
- Re: Internet Explorer 7 - Still Spyware Writers' Heaven Joshua Gimer (Nov 05)
- Re: Internet Explorer 7 - Still Spyware Writers' Heaven Eliah Kagan (Nov 04)
- Re: Internet Explorer 7 - Still Spyware Writers' Heaven Roger A. Grimes (Nov 06)
- Re: Internet Explorer 7 - Still Spyware Writers' Heaven Eliah Kagan (Nov 03)
- Re: Internet Explorer 7 - Still Spyware Writers' Heaven Roger A. Grimes (Nov 02)