Re: [Full-disclosure] Internet Explorer 7 - Still Spyware Writers' Heaven

[Joshua Gimer]

If Microsoft is not planning on providing a fix for this until Vista, I can see a worm coming from this. Forgive me if I don't know how this works in the windows world, but when it is looking for this DLL, does it take the first one that it finds within your path; like in UNIX? Or does it look in all directories within your path and then decide? I am guessing the former, but I am just clarifying.

On 11/3/06, Eliah Kagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On 11/2/06, Roger A. Grimes wrote:
> So, if you're statement is accurate that malware would need to be placed
> in a directory identified by the PATH statement, we can relax because
> that would require Administrator access to pull off. Admin access would
> be needed to modify the PATH statement appropriately to include the
> user's desktop or some other new user writable location or Admin access
> would be needed to copy a file into the locations indicated by the
> default PATH statement.

It would not require *administrator* access--non-administrator users
can still add things to their own PATHs, just not to the universal,
system PATH. (See Control Panel > System > Advanced > Environment
Variables.)

-Eliah

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Thx
Joshua Gimer

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