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Posted by Bo Yang on February 15, 2007, 10:18 pm
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Hi, forget the subject, I am not good at English at all.
I just want to ask, when I browsing web page with IE or
reading my email with outlook, is that possible my computer
will be infected by virus? If so, how the virus archieve
that? How about Firefox and Thunderbird?
Thanks in advance!
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Posted by B. Nice on February 16, 2007, 12:20 am
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On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:18:31 +0800, Bo Yang
>Hi, forget the subject, I am not good at English at all.
>I just want to ask, when I browsing web page with IE or
>reading my email with outlook, is that possible my computer
>will be infected by virus?
Yes.
>If so, how the virus archieve that?
- ActiveX
- Scripting
- Software bugs
>How about Firefox and Thunderbird?
A safer choice. Gone is ActiveX. And then use the "NoScript" plugin
for Firefox to allow only scripting code from sites you trust that
need scripting to work properly.
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Posted by Bo Yang on February 16, 2007, 5:10 am
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> On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:18:31 +0800, Bo Yang
>
>> Hi, forget the subject, I am not good at English at all.
>> I just want to ask, when I browsing web page with IE or
>> reading my email with outlook, is that possible my computer
>> will be infected by virus?
>
> Yes.
>
>> If so, how the virus archieve that?
>
> - ActiveX
Oh, why does Microsoft provide the environment for ActiveX
executing in IE, are JS and VBScript enough?
> - Scripting
But, in my mind, scripting only do their work in the constrained
env the web browser provide, how do they affect the actual system?
> - Software bugs
Exploit these bugs need so much time and enough technology that there
will be only a very small part of virus can do that, I think.
>
>> How about Firefox and Thunderbird?
>
> A safer choice. Gone is ActiveX. And then use the "NoScript" plugin
> for Firefox to allow only scripting code from sites you trust that
> need scripting to work properly.
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Posted by B. Nice on February 16, 2007, 6:01 am
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>B. Nice :
>> On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:18:31 +0800, Bo Yang
>>
>>> Hi, forget the subject, I am not good at English at all.
>>> I just want to ask, when I browsing web page with IE or
>>> reading my email with outlook, is that possible my computer
>>> will be infected by virus?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>> If so, how the virus archieve that?
>>
>> - ActiveX
>Oh, why does Microsoft provide the environment for ActiveX
>executing in IE,
For usability, I suppose.
>are JS and VBScript enough?
Compared to ActiveX? - Mostly yes.
>> - Scripting
>But, in my mind, scripting only do their work in the constrained
>env the web browser provide, how do they affect the actual system?
In principle any kind of client-side code execution poses a problem,
IMHO.
>> - Software bugs
>Exploit these bugs need so much time and enough technology that there
>will be only a very small part of virus can do that, I think.
I disagree. As long as people continue to not keep their systems
updated there is plenty of room for bug exploitations.
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Posted by David H. Lipman on February 16, 2007, 4:06 pm
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| Hi, forget the subject, I am not good at English at all.
| I just want to ask, when I browsing web page with IE or
| reading my email with outlook, is that possible my computer
| will be infected by virus? If so, how the virus archieve
| that? How about Firefox and Thunderbird?
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| Thanks in advance!
You can get infected via explotation of vulnerabilities. They can exist in HTML
Renderings,
Java, JavaScripts, etc, etc.
Any software can be exploited if there are vulnerabilities known or unknown that
have NOT
been patched. This could be; Mozilla software, Apple Quiktime, Adobe Flash,
etc, etc.
--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
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