[pchelpers] News:XP users beware: highly dangerous attack gives hackers immediate control

By Microsoft Subnet on Thu, 10/23/2008 - 9:57am.

Symantec today reported a new kind of attack that is exceptionally
dangerous using Microsoft Help and Support Center Viewer. With this
attack, hackers gain immediate access to the victims computer, rather
than having to figure out a way to get the attack code to load (access
to a startup file, a reboot, social engineering).

An attacker tricks a victim into visiting a Web page that loads a binary
file of malware via an arbitrary file-overwrite. It also overwrites a
help system file, which has the power of executing scripts. The attacker
uses this to execute the malicious binary file. 

More here:
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/34367

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