Daily Archive for December 11th, 2005

‘Nother vulnerability

Published on December 11, 2005 in TV and Windows. 0 Comments

Earler today, I posted about the AIM “talk virus”. The Firefox web browser has a fairly crippling vulnerability that was discovered recently. If a web page has a long title, the browsers history.dat file can be corrupted, thus making the browser un startable. Mozilla stated recently that it is working on a patch, and it advised users to be careful in their web surfing habits. There has been a proof of concept that has been posted on the internet. The link to the PoC is at the bottom of the article. If you go to it, you will not be able to start Firefox again unless you delete the history.dat file from your profile. This is generally in C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ \history.dat.

Proof of Concept: Do not click this unless you intend to disable your browser. Ok. If you do, it’s not my fault.

New Virus

Published on December 11, 2005 in Linux, Windows and cPanel. 0 Comments

Just the other day, I decided to get AIM. Just a few days after I get aim, i hear that there is a new virus that affects AIM users. This virus is generally a run-of-the-mill IM worm, but it actually speaks to its victims. An example of what is does is below:

Sender:
Receiver: is that a virus?
Sender: lol no its not a virus.

Very simple, yet very effective. Be sure not to fall for that one. On other news, I managed to get ASP.NET working on the server…after a few hours of failed attempts. Me thinks that cPanel needs to fine tune their installers.

Source: http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/12/07/145243.shtml?tid=120&tid=172