Re: Caution SONY Music CDs have trojan Malware

From: Gremlin (bughunter.dustin_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/11/05 

Date: 10 Nov 2005 23:45:43 -0800

Hairy One Kenobi wrote:

> > Did I say that? Anybody can set it up to be reasonably safe, but unless
> > your a programmer; and neither of you idiots are, you cannot assume
> > it's setup securely.
>
> http://www.codecutters.org/outlook/
>
> And, although I haven't been following this particular thread, I *am* a
> programmer.

No disrespect intended, but that urls information was covered under
reasonably safe. Some of the exploits I've mentioned did take advantage
of problems present in the code of outlook express. Not all of them
were due to user ignorance. Certainly clicking on the subject line
wasnt the fault of the user. Outlook express shouldn't have been able
to be tricked into executing code if you did. Granted thats old news
now and has been fixed, here are some newer ones:

http://www.google.com/search?q=outlook+express+vulnerabilities&btnG=Search&hl=en&lr=

As you can see, the program has new holes being found often. It's a
poorly written piece of software. Your internet zone security settings
will not prevent many of those from occuring on unpatched systems. And
even a patched one won't protect you from one someone is choosing to
keep a secret. The first hit was privately disclosed. Nice of them.

Regards,
Dustin Cook
htttp://bughunter.atspace.org

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