full-disclosure - .hta virus analysys

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Message-ID: <200311200446.hAK4kCsp009697@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu)
Subject: .hta virus analysys 

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 18:50:12 PST, bryce <lord_ph@...cast.net>  said:
> I'm new to this list, and sorta new to security on a computer. But can 
> someone tell me what program runs a .hta file??

Well.. there's two questions here:

1) What program is *supposed* to interpret .hta files?

2) What program(s) can be induced to try to do so?

and the implied third question:

3) What leverage can you get from the difference between 1 and 2?
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