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Message-ID: <200407081509.i68F9tu05224@netsys.com>
From: sapheriel at wwwp.de (Sapheriel)
Subject: How big is the danger of IE?

i didn't know IE also displays e-mails and power point files. 

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From: full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com
[mailto:full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com] On Behalf Of Eric Paynter
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 4:56 PM
To: full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] 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

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