Digital.K Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 As much as I hate IE, this should be another reason not to use it. I saw this and just wanted to give you guys that use IE a heads up on a very serious security issue. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1306762,00.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshMan Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 DISABLE VB SCRIPTS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gosh Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 Here's another article on it - http://www.cbronline.com/latestnews/a7aa80...0256db30018c17b Does anyone know a working workaround? Can anyone confirm disabling vbscript fixes this? -gosh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digital.K Posted October 2, 2003 Author Share Posted October 2, 2003 It said in the article to just delete the particular key, thats what I did because I have other users who use my machine that run IE, and I made sure to back up the registry before hand. taken from the article I linked above: "A fully patched IE system is vulnerable to this," said Art Manion, Internet security analyst at CERT. Manion said that editing the registry to delete a key related to the problem seems to be the most effective method of preventing exploitation, he said. The key that needs to be renamed or deleted is: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\MIME\Database\Content Type\application/hta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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