Re: CWS = Crummy Windows Security

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Date:         Thu, 7 Oct 2004 21:23:17 +0200
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A Aronoff wrote:
>> AppInit_Dlls is a gaping security hole. Unfettered access to this
>> value should be removed ASAP from NT4/W2K/WXP.

Ron Parker replied:
> Unfettered? What's "unfettered" mean?

Unfettered means that if security permits, any app can write to this
value. In our opinion, even with Admin access, there should be special
vetting, perhaps against an MS-approved white list, before an app can
write there. On a hostile network (such as the Internet), the value is
simply too powerful for access to be left otherwise.

Mark Tassin pointed out:
> Why not simply use CoolWebShredder? Made by the author of Hijack
> This! It seems to nail all the CWS variants out there. And does it
> well I might add.
>
> http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

For two reasons:

1. As the download page you provided indicates, the CWShredder
   project is "suspended"

2. On the CWS version we wrestled with, CWShredder didn't work.
   (HijackThis didn't show anything in the AppInit_Dlls value,
   either.)

Of course, if CWShredder works, so much the better. It's free, just
like the method we espouse.

regards, Andy

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