[Full-Disclosure] How big is the danger of IE?

Eric Paynter eric at arcticbears.com
Thu Jul 8 15:56:19 BST 2004


On Thu, July 8, 2004 4:51 am, Sapheriel said:
> well, i read about a hacker scenario once that utilizes IE vulnerabilities
> by exploiting the interests of employees. basically, you lure an employee
> to a website you prepared that exploits some bug in IE to install a trojan
> on that pc, thus bypassing firewall and other security precautions.

Don't forget that the "website" you lure the person too can also be an
email, or anything else with embedded HTML - one of those chain-mail power
point things - almost anything.

-Eric

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