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#119059 02/05/05 09:34 PM
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Open source also means that same logic can be applied from the other end.

#119060 02/05/05 09:40 PM
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I guess so, but it's highly unlikely that a single person will find and exploit a bug in a fairly popular OS, there will most likely be quite a few people that find the same bug and it's unlikely that all of them will use it for trouble.


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#119061 03/05/05 11:06 AM
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you can get infected by just visiting a website? Damn thats hard. I always knew MS was the root of all evil. ( yet still i use it frown )


It's hardly that bad. This site has a pretty well presented case study of actual ActiveX exploits compared to user-dependent infections. And if you already clicked the link and I hadn't deleted the hyphen, you'd be in the exact same situation as any IE, FF, Moz, Opera user - facing a run box.

Malware is caused by ignorance and clicking 'yes'. I'd use IE if no one else ever touched my computer (and it had tabs, and rss bookmarks). Just the other day I found someone panicking because 'the popup won't close, and keeps opening windows!'. I go to investigate and find that they're clicking the Win98 style X box on a static banner on a webpage, opening god knows how many instances of an ad. Nevermind that the rest of Windows is skinned to look like OSX.

#119062 03/05/05 11:10 AM
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The exploits that aren't patched don't allow code execution e.g. virus execution.

#119063 03/05/05 11:55 PM
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Can't be so sure about that... I'm pretty sure that there have been worms in the past that can infect you through a security exploit when you open an e-mail message in Hotmail or Yahoo with MSIE.

#119064 04/05/05 03:46 PM
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Bugbear.


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#119065 06/05/05 02:24 AM
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Are you kidding ?

#119066 18/05/05 06:00 PM
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I've noticed that alot of these website virus' are ran without the user being aware. In the past I've looked into one of these websites and noticed that when you visit the site it automatically runs a .vbs files as soon as the site opens and you never even see it. Once the .vbs file has run it creates a .ini file within the windows root and expands from there infecting mainly mIRC folders among other locations so to rebuild itself upon removal. This may have just been a weak mIRC/IRC trojan type infection but none-the-less it runs the same rule in my opinion. I've found if you install a simple program called Script Defender from analogx you can stop anything from running as long as the extension is listed in the program as a blocked extension.

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