Another Netscape Bug (and possible security hole)

Ray Cromwell rjc at clark.net
Fri Sep 22 22:16:31 PDT 1995


> 
> Actually it allows you to imbed data and commands to run. What the latest
> MSWord virus did is imbed a virus dropper encoded in the word document
> and then run it trough the dos debug command to make it a binary file
> (if you ever read the 40HEX virus magazine you should know how this works).
> From there it just run the dropper.

  You could make a worm out of this Netscape bug by having it look
for a user's homepage when it infects, and then inserting the
URL into that page.







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