RE: [Full-Disclosure] HOW TO BREAK XP SP2 POPUP BLOCKER: kick it in the nut !

From: James Patterson Wicks (pwicks_at_oxygen.com)
Date: 12/13/04

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    Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:40:32 -0500
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    This is what one of our developers came up with:

    "I could only find one bypass that uses the DHTML Edit Control ActiveX
    control (clsid:2D360201-FFF5-11d1-8D03-00A0C959BC0A) installed with the
    IE.

    An example of this is http://www.malware.com/flopup.html

    This still showed a popup even when I said block all popups. It
    basically uses this ActiveX control to execute a javascript as follows:
    x.DOM.Script.execScript(shellscript.toString());
    x.DOM.Script.setTimeout("shellscript()");

    You could either disable this control (which I don't know if there are
    programs that depend on it). You could also disallow ActiveX controls
    which would break Sharepoint among other things."

    Any comments?

    -----Original Message-----
    From: full-disclosure-admin@lists.netsys.com
    [mailto:full-disclosure-admin@lists.netsys.com] On Behalf Of Scott Renna
    Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 11:42 PM
    To: 1@malware.com
    Cc: full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com
    Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] HOW TO BREAK XP SP2 POPUP BLOCKER: kick
    it in the nut !

    Beautiful...how many more fun ones like these until people start to
    migrate away from IE.....

    http-equiv@excite.com wrote:
    > Friday, December 10, 2004
    >
    > Internet Explorer 6 on the gadget commonly known as Windows XP SP2
    enjoys
    > a fairly robust "popup blocker".
    >
    > This little 'thing' has been a major irritation to date. Nothing gets
    past
    > it until now. Chatter exists that some sites have defeated it on the
    > causal default setting. We only deal in the high settings here !
    >
    > Our Chairman and CEO, Mr. Liu Die Yu takes the sledgehammer and cracks

    > open this bothersome little nut like so:
    >
    > http://www.malware.com/flopup.html
    >
    > Notes:
    >
    > 1. Nothing like a bit of irritation to get constructive
    > 2. Additional popup blocker from MSN is also killed, may may Die ! too
    > 3. Get editive before it's too late: http://www.editive.com
    > 4. None
    >
    > End Call
    >
    >

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