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From: eckman at umn.edu (Brian Eckman)
Subject: Removing ShKit Root Kit

Jason wrote:
>>> OK, so how does the attacker get the ADS to run? If you open 
>>> something.txt in notepad, it doesn't launch the ADS 'trouble.exe' as 
>>> an executable file. It's ignored.
>>
> 
> The easy answer is start a command prompt and type
> 
> start something.txt:trouble.exe

You totally missed my point. If the hacker can run "start" anything on 
your system, it's game over anyway.

-- 
Brian Eckman
Security Analyst
OIT Security and Assurance
University of Minnesota


"There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who
understand binary and those who don't."


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