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Message-ID: <20031219200450.C75AB97B44@cpo.tn.tudelft.nl>
From: emvs.fd.3FB4D11C at cpo.tn.tudelft.nl (Erik van Straten)
Subject: Openware.org IE Fix - Warning

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 14:35:43 +0000 petard wrote:
[snip]
> Summary: Not only is there a stupid, possibly exploitable, buffer
> overflow here, but the place I'm seeing it is in a section of the code
> whose main purpose appears to be submitting information about what you
> browse back to the code's authors. I'd say this is malicious... the user
> is certainly not warned of this prior to downloading the patch. Since I
> never executed it, I have no idea of whether or not they are warned by
> an installer. Call it a trojan, call it spyware, but don't execute it.

I played with it yesterday. It also installs "LiveUpdate" which runs 
when you logon to your PC. If you uninstall IEXPatch.exe, LiveUpdate 
remains. The *.url files in the LIVEUPDATE dir point to:

http://liveupdate.openwares.org/index.html
http://liveupdate.openwares.org/Manual.htm
http://liveupdate.openwares.org/EULA.htm

Added to C:\Program Files\
12/18/03  02:55p        <DIR>          LIVEUPDATE
12/18/03  02:55p        <DIR>          Openwares IE Security Patch

Added to C:\Program Files\LIVEUPDATE\
12/18/03  02:55p        <DIR>          Bin
12/13/03  06:17p                61,440 LiveUpdate.exe
11/06/03  01:36p                61,440 Uninstall.exe
12/08/03  02:22a               143,360 Remind.ocx
12/15/03  05:27p                    66 About.url
12/15/03  05:27p                    64 EULA.url
12/15/03  05:27p                    66 Manual.url

Added to C:\Program Files\LIVEUPDATE\Bin\
[empty]

Added to C:\Program Files\Openwares IE Security Patch\
12/15/03  05:10p                53,248 OpenwaresIEPatch.dll
12/18/03  02:55p                51,520 Uninstall.exe

Cheers,
Erik