[Mimedefang] Re: ZDnet article on new Zombie Trick

[Paul Russell]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 "Paul Murphy" <pmurphy at ionixpharma.com> wrote:
> 
> And in any case, how long will it be before the trojan stuffs keypresses or VB
> script into Windows to start Outlook or Outlook Express in a hidden window if it
> finds it, and then plug away sending messages with the correct client settings,
> including client authentication?

It seems to me that it would be much easier and almost as effective to simply
pop up a dialogue box asking for the username and password. I suspect that
many users would stupidly provide the requested information and click OK
without wondering why they were being asked.

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Paul Russell
Senior Systems Administrator
OIT Messaging Services Team
University of Notre Dame