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From: skip at duckwall.net (Skip Duckwall)
Subject: Beware of 'IBM laptop order' email

Since it's a phishing email, I'm sure the exploit they're referring to is
the one that exploits the compiled help files (.chm files), even though
it's not exactly new... Although the way the hostile chm files are
executed without user intervention has been patched (the MS-ITS
vulnerability in MS04-013 I believe...)

This type of phishing scam isn't really all that new and you can find all
sorts of writeups using google.  A particularty decent site that has lots
of phishing writeups (aside from the one I'm linking to)
http://spamwatch.codefish.net.au/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=98

just my guess....

Alva Lease 'Skip' Duckwall
CISSP,RHCE,SCSA
skip at duckwall dot net

On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, m g wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Last week on the site of 'The Register' an article was published about
> spam-mail that used an unknown 'zero-day' vulnerability in IE. They did not
> release any information about the zero-day issue, so perhaps anyone on the
> list knows anything about this issue and whether or not this issue is really
> a zero-day vulnerability or just a old one,
>
> The article can be found at the following URL:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/24/fake_order_viral_scam/
>
> Greetings Mike
>
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