Re: Unscrupulous websites installing apps

From: MortalCryat_private
Date: Thu Sep 13 2001 - 14:22:55 PDT

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    I have seen this a couple of times when using internet explorer 5.5.  Ill 
    goto a site, and there will nothing there, then like 5 minutes later zone 
    alarm will tell me about some strange program trying to connect to the 
    internet.  Ill check to see if i can find out where the application came 
    from, using properties -> Versions tab.  Sometimes it shows the same address 
    that i had just been to.  Didn't really think about it as being a vuln. 
    untill now.  Someone could use the 'bug' to download a trojan on every 
    internet exporer based computer that connects to their site.  The user 
    wouldnt even know what was going on.  Maby its the default security setting?  
    Lack of security setting?
    



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