Any chance you contacted Wehnus about it? The "hot fix" is just to open regedit, browse to this key, and place the path inside double quotes. Minor problem, but I am sure Matt would have appreciated an email first. -HD On Monday 16 January 2006 14:47, Thierry Zoller wrote: > Dear List, > > Small blurp I came around; when Wehntrust creates the autostart key > it forgets to correctly quote the string in the key and thus may > trigger an autostart of c:\program.bat|exe|com up-on reboot... [2] > > Quoting [1] : > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >--- c:\program files\sub dir\program.exe, > > In this case, the system will successively expand the string when > interpreting the file path, until a module is encountered to execute. > The string used in the above example would be interpreted as follows: > > c:\program.exe > c:\program files\sub.exe > c:\program files\sub dir\program.exe > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >------ > > [1] > http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-November/038789 >.html [2] Only a real issue in Windows 2000, WinXP restricted > users don't have the right to write to c:\ > [3] http://secdev.zoller.lu > [4] http://www.wehnus.com/
