Re: [Hardhats-members] Why you should disable the Autorun in your Windows PC

[chuck5566]

On Jun 9, 2006, at 8:49 PM, Gregory Woodhouse wrote: On Jun 9, 2006, at 5:54 PM, Nancy Anthracite wrote: Just to be paranoid, Bhaskar, that link is to an " .asp" document.  Why does  it need to be asp?  Is this a website with ill intent?   Pardon me for being dense, but what makes .asp a security threat? It indicates the web site is database driven, but so is the WorldVistA site. .asp indicates to the Web server that the document has code to be executed, usually _vbscript_.  No database is implied or need be involved at all.   Much of the Web malware has been code known to cause memory overflows in IE or IIS, giving the hackers an "in".

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