> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rogerio Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: 17 January 2002 20:22
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: RE: Outlook session sharing disable
> 
> 
> It is easy to develop some sort of trojan, that once installed 
> and running at a particular machine, can use an active 
> connection from the user's Outlook to the Exchange Server, to 
> have free access to the user's mailbox. So, any form of 
> strong authentication that could be used to enforce the 
> security of access to the Exchange Server is useless, because 
> an authenticated Outlook-Exchange session can be largely used 
> by whatever process running on that machine.

Ok. I'm logged on at my machine and I'm stupid enough to run "click here to
see britney spears naked, really, not a virus
honest.exe.jpg.pif.htm.bat.com"

It uses your elite security hole to send lots of emails via notepad.
It sends email via the VBA scripting interface
It installs it's own SMTP engine (like Happy99/SKA did) and sends  it's damn
email it's damn self.

What's the difference? What's the point?

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