--On Thursday, November 06, 2003 2:02 AM -0700 Kurt Seifried
<kurt@seifried.org> wrote:
>> In our never-ending quest for entertainment, we commece from
>> this date forward to end-2004 our POS series of findings. That
>> is the 'perfect operating system'. Today we debut and regurgitate
>> new and not so new for fun as follows. A warm up for the New Year if
>> you will !:
>
> This is easy to avoid. Just set the kill bit for the affected Active
> component, Adodb.Stream for which the CLSID is
> 4B106874-DD36-11D0-8B44-00A024DD9EFF.
{4B106874-DD36-11D0-8B44-00A024DD9EFF} is the Local Troubleshooter control.
The ADODB.Stream control, an important part of several current IE exploits,
is {00000566-0000-0010-8000-00AA006D2EA4}.
MS KB article about the kill bit:
<http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q240/7/97.asp>
Disable Active scripting for untrusted sites.
- Art
