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This website (http://www.pivx.com/larholm/unpatched/) indicates that 31 vulnerabilities continue to exist in Microsoft Internet Explorer as of Sept. 11, 2003. These vulnerabilities include:

  • Media bar ressource injection
  • file-protocol proxy
  • NavigateAndFind protocol history
  • window.open search injection
  • NavigateAndFind file proxy
  • Timed history injection
  • history.back method caching
  • Click hijacking
  • Re-evaluating HTML elavation
  • ADODB.Stream local file writing
  • Notepad popups
  • protocol control chars

 

What Timmay provided us is a perfect example of social engineering which essentially relies on your trust. You trust Timmay not to do any thing malicious so you click the link. Once you link to the malicious website, script is executed. This can also happen with email exploits. Luckily, this was only a joke but there's black hats out there that make the script kiddies like idiots. Script kiddies can be harmful too because their antics can cause bad things to happen, loss of data, erase files, etc. Black hats are usually after specific types of information e.g., credit card numbers, passwords, and can install keyloggers and other programs that do bad things. Be careful boys and girls. There are bad people out there. Especially don't download and execute a program from someone you don't know. You could end up losing control of your own computer.

 

You can visit computer security sites that will probe for vulnerabilities in your system at:

http://www.dslreports.com

http://www.trojanscan.com/trojanscan/ http://www.trojanscan.com/security/ (check email security

http://www.pcflank.com

 

More info is available at:

Information at http://www.cert.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/

http://www.securitynewsportal.com/index.shtml

 

 

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Thanks for the head's up Scrambler. A good reminder for us non-geeky types. I know I tend to trust you guys and dolls at cc.com, but am reminded by childish shit like Timmy's link how vulnerable we are. I'm certainly glad I've outgrown that kind of juvenile behavior. Fuck you Timmy the_finger.gif

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oh and scrambler, i would never post a link to a site with malicous code on it. give me some credit homeboy! i do everything in my power/knowledge to prevent the spread of virus and spam bullshit on the 'net.

 

in my 2+ years in my current job, we have yet to be infected (knock on wood) with a spamming fest virus (which is pretty damn good considering we run exchange/outlook).

 

but indeed kiddies, you need to be safe on this scary place called the net. especially for people like that incubus character.

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gapertimmy said:

oh and scrambler, i would never post a link to a site with malicous code on it. give me some credit homeboy! i do everything in my power/knowledge to prevent the spread of virus and spam bullshit on the 'net.

 

in my 2+ years in my current job, we have yet to be infected (knock on wood) with a spamming fest virus (which is pretty damn good considering we run exchange/outlook).

 

but indeed kiddies, you need to be safe on this scary place called the net. especially for people like that incubus character.

 

I know, Timm@y. I've seen a couple of these popup things before and the loss of control is always a bit unnerving. It's almost frightening to learn of the many harmless vulnerabilities that are waiting to be turned into something more malicious by people who modify these exploits and viruses into powerful tools. I've heard that even pictures can hide code.

 

I suppose for now, the best that we can do is to use and maintain a good anti-virus program and firewall. There is some freeware out there for firewalls and anti-virus. I hear that these have weaknesses that can be exploited but these are better than using none at all.

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snoboy said:

What's the big deal??? I just get a page flashing "you are an idiot" at me. I already knew that. hahaha.gif :shrug:

 

Right, Snoboy. What's there to worry about? Hahahaha. I'm just being funny. We don't have to worry about any zeroday viruses either. All this talk about guns and fear and stuff in the other threads has me all paranoid. Hahahaha... Besides why would anyone care about my harddrive? What're they gonna do, use it to launch a distributed attack or something? Hahahaha...

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