[plug] First MS vista virus released :-)

Chris Caston caston at arach.net.au
Fri Aug 5 20:45:46 WST 2005


On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 20:43, Richard Meyer wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 20:22 +0800, Chris Caston wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 15:51, Richard Meyer wrote:
> > > Australia leads the way.   :-)
> > > 
> > > The first virus for the new MS Vista OS has been released it appears.
> > > http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=42178662&eid=-219
> > > 
> > > Which idiots said that the only reason virus writers concentrate on MS
> > > is the fact that it's everywhere? Vista isn't anywhere yet, and it's
> > > already got a virus. :-)
> > > 
> > > Forgive me while I laugh.
> > > 
> > > Imagine considering a shell to be a drawback, rather than a power tool.
> > > Boggles my tiny mind.
> > 
> > We spent a fair time at tafe learning how to use VBS to automatically
> > add users to ADS from a access db or excel spreadsheet. 
> > 
> > These files have a long history of being used to help compromise peoples
> > machines so it stands to reason that other scripting languages will have
> > security issues as well.
> > 
> > regards,
> > 
> > Chris
> 
> I hear you, and I'd be interested to know whether these scripts can do
> their magic from a normal user-id, or whether they need an Admin user to
> run them. If they need an Admin user, I have no quarrel whatsoever. the
> Admin/root user 

Unless of course Vista by default makes the main user admin.

Of course you might want to run a script as a user with the bare minimum
resources required to complete the tasks of the script in case the
script get hijacked somehow or edited by someone with malicious intent.

regards,

Chris 




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