Backdoor Trojan targets Microsoft Access
John Leyden,
The Register
2005-10-03
Virus writers have created a Trojan which uses an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Office to take over Windows PCs. The [a href="http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/backdoor.hesive.html"]Hesive Trojan[/a] can be disguised as a Microsoft Access file. Once opened in Access, infected .mdb files take advantage of a five-month old buffer overflow flaw in Microsoft's Jet Database Engine software to seize control of vulnerable machines.