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Message-Id: <201008270430.o7R4UX5J023988@bari.maths.usyd.edu.au>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:30:33 +1000
From: paul.szabo@...ney.edu.au
To: dan@...para.com, larry@...ryseltzer.com
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: DLL hijacking with Autorun on a USB drive
Dan Kaminsky <dan@...para.com> wrote:
>>> Instead of it executing "wab.exe (Windows Address Book) and open the
>>> file test.vcf", one can directly get any .exe file open.
>>
>> Users have shown themselves very willing to open up test.vcf.exe.
>
> Or for that matter, test, which is actually an exe with the icon of a
> vcf. Thus the problem with all this chortling about foolish
> applications: the desktop simply does not possess the security model
> of the browser or the email client.
Badly setup desktops: do not "hide extensions", maybe view details (or
list) not icons.
Cheers, Paul
Paul Szabo psz@...hs.usyd.edu.au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia
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