The Virus Cometh

[Bill Vermillion]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 04:03:15PM -0800, Jim Asman thus spoke:

> Just starting today I have been swamped with one of the latest
> crop of viruses.

> I am pretty certain that this is from an infected computer of a
> reader of this list. And further, the reader is most likely in
> the Netherlands.

> If you fit the profile, do a virus scan.

One of last weeks viruses was using an old hole in unpatched
IE systems - a hole that has been know for over a year.  

And a new problem for web based mail servers - such as Hotmai and
Yahoo, and any other which performs HTML filtering means that users
names and passwords and the complete contents of their mailboxes
can be retreived.

After it was found Hotmail was patched, no word on Yahoo, and I've
seen nothing on other web mail utitlites which the discovered says
may be vulnerable.

This current ones involves opening a message in Internet Explorer
- a hole found in SMIL-based technology. SMIL - Synchronized
Multimedia Integration Language.

Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com