full-disclosure - Re: Vista's been hacked

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Message-ID: <090201c83a2b$0291e660$0500a8c0@ze4427wm>
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 06:16:17 -0000
From: "Aaron Gray" <angray@...b.net>
To: "dripping" <dripping@....org>, <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Vista's been hacked

> Oh wow.
> I didn't even read that page..
> Sorry, I'll do a bit more searching :)
>
> dripping wrote:
>> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa965260.aspx
>> Screen scaling/Accessibility.

That may well be it as it was not universal and did not effect Zeus Editors 
text size but does effect all menus. Also I think the menu item font maybe 
diferent.

>> odd...I'll go to my vista machine and check out ps2pdf.com.

Was that okay ?

>> Did this happen upon a reboot, or did it just do this today?
>>
>>
>> Aaron Gray wrote:
>>> I was hoping that someone would know how the hack was done.
>>>
>>> It was via IE7, I was not using any odd sites, only ps2pdf.com google 
>>> and
>>> academic sites.
>>>
>>> It must have altered the registery, "permanently" altering the screen
>>> scaling.
>>>
>>> Anyone who can give me a tip on readjusting the screen scaling gets 
>>> cookie
>>> points, as this would be very useful for a sight impaired friend of 
>>> mine.
>>>
>>> Hope this is is not excess traffic.
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "dripping" <dripping@....org>
>>> To: <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
>>> Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 3:36 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Vista's been hacked
>>>
>>>
>>> thanks for the useless mail in my inbox!
>>>
>>> Aaron Gray wrote:
>>>>>> Some irritating person has changed the screen scaling on my Vista
>>>>>> machine.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Aaron
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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