Re: Spyware going thru firewall

From: televisionfoot (televisionfootWHO.ATE.ALL.THE.SPAM?@hotmail.com)
Date: 09/13/02 

From: televisionfoot <televisionfootWHO.ATE.ALL.THE.SPAM?@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:40:02 +0100

LLL roared:

> > > Say for example you have given permission to IE to access the
> > > internet. That means the iexplore.exe program has permission. All a
> > > Trojan has to do is rename iexplore.exe to foo.exe and then name its
> > > "dirty worker" program iexplore.exe. Once "dirty worker" is finished,
> > > control is passed to foo.exe which makes you think everything is
> > > normal except perhaps IE may seem slower to load than usual. You see?
> > > Very simple :)
> >
> > Another example is when the trojan name is iexp1ore.exe, iexpiore.exe,
> > iexplore .exe, or other visually similar spellings. When your firewall asks
> > if you want it to access the internet, you grant it permission, and never
> > notice the error.
>
> There is no reason for IExplorer to ever access the internet. Can you explain
> why IEexplorer would ever need access to the internet since it has no reason to
> perform,.

You're an idiot.

> The problem begins with newbies not knowing what is important to access the
> internet.

No, the problem began when they let you use the Internet to say
all this pointless crap for the world to see. 

-- 
televisionfoot.

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