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From: eric at arcticbears.com (Eric Paynter) Subject: How big is the danger of IE? 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 -- arctic bears - affordable email and name services @yourdomain.com http://www.arcticbears.com
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