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Proudly Serving My Corporate Masters: Alleged Monad "Virus", But Not Really
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August 04, 2005
Alleged Monad "Virus", But Not Really
A posting on the F-Secure website claims First "Vista Virus" found . It was written up in issue six of RRLF Magazine . The story has now made it to ZDNet UK and will presumably osmose around the Internet. Basically it's some scripts that do sneaky things, so if you run the scripts on your machine then sneaky things get done on your machine. This is NOT a remote exploit or any widening of the Windows attack surface.
So the key defense is not to run those scripts. Lee Holmes has an excellent discussion of this , including some of the measures taken in the design of Monad to prevent script-based attacks (support script signing, don't create a file association for .msh, etc). But basically the quote-viruses-unquote depend on you running an untrusted script. Once you have done that, you are open to all sorts of attacks -- the same as if you ran an untrusted .CMD batch file. For example"
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