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Security Flaw Discovered In Internet Explorer And Access Allows Macros To Be Executed Automatically | |
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| Time: 09:56 EST/14:56 GMT | News Source: Press Release | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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GFI, leading developer of email content checking and network security software, has discovered a security flaw in Internet Explorer and Microsoft Access 2000 that allows macros to be executed automatically on a victim's machine. GFI has notified Microsoft Corp., which issued an advisory (Microsoft Security Bulletin number MS02-005, dated 11 February 2002). This flaw within Internet Explorer allows a malicious user to run arbitrary code on a target machine as it attempts to view a website or an HTML email. It can be exploited by embedding macro code such as VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) within an Access database file (.mdb) that in turn lies within an Outlook Express email file or Multipart HTML File (.mhtml). If this file is accessed using Internet Explorer, the attachment can be automatically executed without triggering any warnings. | ||
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| #1 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 2/12/2002 10:11:09 AM |
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This is security month!
Don't worry, RedHat is still ahead 14 to 5! |
| #2 By 2459 (66.25.124.8) at 2/12/2002 10:12:58 AM |
| Look at the advisory number. It's the cumulative IE patch from yesterday. Should be already fixed if you applied that patch. |
| #3 By 3 (62.253.128.4) at 2/12/2002 10:14:38 AM |
| I believe this is one of the bugs fixed yesterday - but GFI were late with their PR. |
| #4 By 2332 (129.21.145.80) at 2/12/2002 3:03:10 PM |
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92% of all operating systems shipped world wide in 2000 were from Microsoft:
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/02/28/010228hnvise.xml This has been consistantly increasing as well, with Windows XP sales only being rivaled by Windows 98. |
| #5 By 2332 (129.21.145.80) at 2/12/2002 3:26:54 PM |
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#18 - I cannot refute your statement since I don't have $2,500 ready to blow on the report, but according to the article I referenced:
"Worldwide shipments of Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT Workstation, Windows 2000 Professional, and Windows Millennium Edition comprised 92 percent of all client operating systems shipped last year..." It does say WorldWide, which suggests exactly that - world wide. I was indeed assuming we were talking about the desktop, and not the server environment... but even including servers, I would guess that Microsoft's total OS market share is still close to the 90% range. There far fewer server licenses sold each year than there are desktop licenses. Some much fewer than the numbers would probably only have a minimal affect on total market share. In addition, we can only speculate about sales that are not recorded in a manner that could be tracked by companies like IDC. |
| #6 By 1845 (12.254.230.100) at 2/12/2002 4:52:33 PM |
| I might be wrong, but I have a hunch Jagged was referring to desktop OS's. If you consider #6's comment, the browser wars I would say were fought of desktop browsers, not embedded or otherwise. Few, I imagine, would dispute that in the desktop space Microsoft's market share is at least 80%. Few also, I imagine, would dispute that it is much lower in other arenas - server, embedded, etc. |
| #7 By 2332 (129.21.145.80) at 2/12/2002 9:59:17 PM |
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#20 - Ah yes, embedded, I didn't think of that.
One final note on the subject; the majority of the world's population lives in relative poverty with barely the ability to feed themselves, so using overall population as a metric would probably be a mistake. :-) |
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