From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

I find it sad. By now, anyone with half a brain should've pretty much
dumped ActiveX (and Flash) from websites. I guess the key here is
"with half a brain"...


Antti Kurenniemi

"Geo"  wrote in message news:4473c60c{at}w3.nls.net...
> Does anyone but me find it funny that I have to click "NO"
to two activeX
> control to view the articles about security?
>
> Geo.
>
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
> news:4473a075$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1966009,00.asp
>>
>> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1965042,00.asp
>>
>> Symantec's DeepSight team said the exploit successfully executes
>> shellcode
>> when it is processed by Microsoft Word 2003. The malicious file caused
>> Microsoft Word 2000 to crash, but shellcode execution did not occur.
>>
>> As a temporary mitigation method, Symantec is recommending that Microsoft
>> Word document e-mail attachments be blocked at the network perimeter.
>> "Furthermore, extreme caution should be exercised while processing
> Microsoft
>> Word attachments received as an unexpected e-mail Attachment," company
>> officials said.
>>
>> This looks like something that was being aimed at industrial and
>> defense/intelligence espionage by the Chinese commies.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>>
>
>

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