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rowan · 10-06-2003, 04:39 PM

Dawgy - how do you protect yourself from an application level security hole?

The only way (besides patching) would be to run some sort of passthru application that changes the word "<object..." in all web page source code. That's why I was pretty much forced to change to Mozilla, there was no practical workaround for IE.

I submitted the file I was infected with to f-prot, I think this is it...

http://www.f-prot.com/news/vir_alert/qhosts-1.html

I've just run windows update to get my IE patched, but I'm not sure if I'm game to try and reinfect myself... the last infection overwrote Windows Media Player.

10-06-2003, 04:39 PM
rowan Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 17,393	Dawgy - how do you protect yourself from an application level security hole? The only way (besides patching) would be to run some sort of passthru application that changes the word "<object..." in all web page source code. That's why I was pretty much forced to change to Mozilla, there was no practical workaround for IE. I submitted the file I was infected with to f-prot, I think this is it... http://www.f-prot.com/news/vir_alert/qhosts-1.html I've just run windows update to get my IE patched, but I'm not sure if I'm game to try and reinfect myself... the last infection overwrote Windows Media Player.