RE: [Nolug] Ack! This is so nasty... AND more

How about his goody!
Are there more PNG's on the web than MP3's ??

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/6366.html

All you have to do is, tweak your web graphics a little, and then let the
98% of the browsers used come visit your site with the "presents".

Petri

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net]On
> Behalf Of Ron Johnson
> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 4:31 PM
> To: Mr. Sal Lopinto; NOLUG ML
> Subject: [Nolug] Ack! This is so nasty...
>
>
> http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=6811
> "If a user were to hover his or her mouse pointer over the icon for the
> file (either on a web page or on the local disk), or open the shared
> folder where the file was stored, the vulnerable code would be invoked.
> An HTML email could cause the vulnerable code to be invoked when a user
> opened or previewed the email. A successful attack could have the effect
> of either causing the Windows Shell to fail, or causing an attacker's
> code to run on the user's computer in the security context of the user."
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