Re: Webpage dialed my modem to ?

From: Cubit (no_at_no.not)
Date: 10/30/03 

Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:04:32 GMT

[snip]
> What are you claiming was the vulnerability here?
[snip]
> Alun.

I found your post to be curiously unsympathetic.

I had assumed that for a webpage to download an exe file, there would be a
chance to approve or refuse such a thing. I now believe that the aciveX
scripting can be written so that the download of the exe file is hidden from
the user. To me, this is a security flaw, even if it is dressed up as a
feature.

On your suggestion that I unknowly approved the dialer, there is a slim
chance you are correct. The website was in German and my 3 years of German
in High School is less than a working knowledge of the language. My
websearch had been in English. Using a foreign language disclaimer in a US
based site might be a sneaky way to steal with unintended 900/976 type
calls.

My options were set to never dial out without prompting me. Something in
the downloaded code overode that. Doing this is the smoking gun to a
criminal intent.

I am not planning to contact law enforcement. I don't have all my ducks
lined up. Never-the-less I am a victim.

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