full-disclosure - Re: WehnTrust - When you have to trust Wehntrust

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Message-ID: <dqjg0t$bfg$1@sea.gmane.org>
Date: Tue Jan 17 19:20:38 2006
From: davek_throwaway at hotmail.com (Dave Korn)
Subject: Re: WehnTrust - When you have to trust Wehntrust


Dave Korn wrote in news:dqiv0c$2rt$1@....gmane.org
> Thierry Zoller wrote in news:1192877198.20060116214705@...ler.lu
>> Dear  List,
>>
>> Small blurp I came around; when Wehntrust creates the autostart key
>> it forgets to correctly quote the string in the key and thus may
>> trigger an autostart of c:\program.bat|exe|com up-on reboot... [2]
>
>  Heh.  I _always_ leave copies of calc.exe lying in my root dir, renamed
> to "Program.exe" and "Documents.exe".
>
>  Starting and stopping RealPlayer leaves you with four instances of calc
> running!
>
>  Users of Sysinternals' Process Explorer will be amused to see what
> happens if they enable Options/Replace Task Manager and then try invoking
> task manager from the SAS menu.
>

  Oh, and OE6 launches it by mistake when it's trying to start up messenger!


    cheers,
      DaveK
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