Re: Internet Explorer (BAN IT !!!)

[Peter King <elvi52001 () yahoo com>]

i confirm that an unprivileged user is safe from this exploit. and i agree with you : too many people are running their 
Windows with Full Privileges :/
 
Regards.
Peter - System Administrator


Irwan Hadi <irwanhadi () phxby com> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 07:54:08AM +1000, gregh wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Stephen" 
> To: 
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 5:19 AM
> Subject: [Full-disclosure] Internet Explorer (BAN IT !!!)
>
>
> > It becomes really dangerous to use IE ...
> >
> > http://www.k-otik.com/WMPLAYER-TEST/
> >
> > God bless Mozilla
> >
> > http://www.mozilla.org/
>
>
> Your test didn't work on my IESP1 under XP with all patches excepting
> 811394. Absolutely no effect on WMP. My original WMP remains and works.

It depends whether you were logging as a privileged user or not.
If not, then your browser can't delete the wmplayer.exe file, because
the only user that can change/delete the wmplayer.exe file is privileged
user.
C:\PROGRA~1\Windows Media Player>cacls wmplayer.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe BUILTIN\Users:R
BUILTIN\Power Users:C
BUILTIN\Administrators:F
NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:F


C:\PROGRA~1\Windows Media Player>

The problem is just too many people are running their Windows with
Full Privileges.



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