Search: Home Bugtraq Vulnerabilities Mailing Lists Jobs Tools Beta Programs
Win-XP Help Center request wipes your HD
Thomas C. Greene, The Register 2002-09-11

A malicious Win-XP Help Center request can easily and silently delete the contents of any directory on your Windows machine, we've learned. Worse, MS has rolled the fix silently into SP1 without making a public announcement. A good sketch of the problem in English, along with a harmless self-test, can be found here, thanks to Mike at http://unity.skankhouse.org, who did some tinkering after noticing a tip on a BBS.

Submit Comment Mode:
Name:
Subject:
Message:
 
  Enter the characters that appear above
 





 

Privacy Statement
Copyright 2009, SecurityFocus