by Alex Eckelberry | Sep 30, 2006 | Uncategorized
Busy past few weeks … first the VML exploit (now patched by Microsoft), then the daxtcle.ocx exploit (not patched yet), and then last night, our friend Roger Thompson reported seeing another exploit, commonly referred to as “setslice” [since it...
by Alex Eckelberry | Sep 29, 2006 | Uncategorized
It turns out that one of the methods HP investigators used was a service called ReadNotify. It’s a tracker that tells someone when an email is open by a designated recipient. Basically, it drops a small amount of html code into an email that...
by Alex Eckelberry | Sep 29, 2006 | Uncategorized
If you’d like to test our new beta 2.0, please follow the instructions in this post. I think it’s a pretty cool new product and we’d really appreciate any feedback you might have on it. To my competitors: Hey, you’ll just have to wait...
by Alex Eckelberry | Sep 27, 2006 | Uncategorized
Faithful blog reader Jack Duggan sent me this little example of greeting card malware:Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:37:33 +0000From: Abigail <Lewisqure@voltronik.pl>Subject: You’ve got an “e-card” at .greeting-cards.com..Reply-to: Abigail...
by Alex Eckelberry | Sep 27, 2006 | Uncategorized
Just a reminder to do the following before patching your system from Microsoft with the VML patch:If you’ve unregistered the vgx.dll, you will need to re-register it. This can be done by typing the following command in the StartRun dialog:regsvr32...
