Re: FN-FORUM: email hack

date posted 2nd November 2005 22:16

Hello,

How can I check that without doing a complete rebuild: as in F-DISK?

DG)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Juan M Uys" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 10:19 PM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: email hack


>
> Things get in because they are trusted. The catch is, these "trusted"
> things may be modified as to exploit some vulnerability.
>
> There may be nothing of interest on your box, but your PC has a
> processor, and has broadband, and this is a perfect companion to be a
> spam-sending zombie box.
>
> [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> >Uhmm,
> >
> >May have a bit of a problem here. What I don't understand is, I'm behind
so
> >many protective software packages, sometimes I can't get out, so how has
> >anything got in?
> >
> >More importantly why? there's nothing on my box of interest to anyone....
> >
> >Bl**DY stupid....
> >
> >DG)
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Anthony Cartmell" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> >To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> >Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 9:50 PM
> >Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: email hack
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>>Can anyone tell me is it possible for your computer to be hacked via an
> >>>email WITHOUT ANY ATTACHMENTS? I do have a very real reason for asking
> >>>this question.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Yes it is possible, especially if it's Micro$oft Outlook or Outlook
> >>Express, which use the IE engine for rendering HTML with iFrames,
ActiveX
> >>and all sorts of vulnerabilities in it. HTML e-mails can be very
> >>dangerous in the wrong hands.
> >>
> >>If it's a standard plain-text e-mail, then no, you can't be hacked.
> >>
> >>Anthony
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