Hackers about
Like a lot of people, I like to look at my Referrers page to
see how popular I am and how people come to find my blog. There's usually a large
clump of hits from <nowhere>, followed by lots of individual hits from the
MSN or Google or Yahoo!
search engines.The
other day, someone was looking for free software to decrypt data without
knowing the decryption key. Today someone was looking for a way to crack
FullTrust code. Who knows what people will be looking for tomorrow?
Comments
- Anonymous
November 07, 2003
I'm looking for more information on the next version of VSTO!!!! :-) - Anonymous
November 08, 2003
I'm looking for reasons why the Microsoft newsmasters are so incompetent that they continually let the sobig etc. viruses through their system, creating the illusion that the patches are genuine (from a trusted Microsoft channel) There's no point making the code safe, if you're going to not stomp on these sort of human problems. - Anonymous
November 09, 2003
Jim, do you still see these? I don't see any on the VSTO or JScript .NET groups. Are you connecting to msnews.microsoft.com, or some other server? Microsoft can't control what content goes onto other servers, even if it is in the "microsoft.public" heirarchy. As for human problems, we are now seeing ZIP-based viruses (please open ZIP then double-click on the EXE) because EXEs and WSH files are blocked in Outlook. At the end of the day though, what can you do? Either you let people install and run code on their machine or you don't... - Anonymous
November 10, 2003
what can you do? don't block EXEs from outlook, stick them in an 'untrusted' zone somewhere, then run them with very low permissions.blocking them (including via ZIP-wrapping) forces people to stick them in 'my documents' or somwhere where they're both trusted and likely to be forgotten about instead of deleted, only to be double-clicked on later. - Anonymous
November 11, 2003
The trouble is there's no such thing as Partial Trust for native code on Windows. Even if there was, most apps would not work and so people would simply move the EXEs to their desktops anyway. - Anonymous
November 11, 2003
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November 11, 2003
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November 12, 2003
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November 17, 2003
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