Sha
10-22-2004, 08:59 PM
I followed a link from here for the Bohemiam Bush bit and my virus scanner caught and blocked a HTML.MHTMLRedir.exploit trojan to my computer.
This is the information on this..I hope that you all can just be warned and make sure you have your Virus scanners working! ;) This particular has a med-high destructive rating.
HTML.MHTMLRedir!exploit
Description Published: April 12, 2004
Description Modified: October 19, 2004
HTML.MHTMLRedir.exploit is a generic detection of web pages or e-mail messages which attempt to exploit the "MHTML URL Processing" vulnerability in Internet Explorer. For more information specific to this vulnerability, please visit our Vulnerability Information Center.
This does not necessarily mean that a virus has been found. It merely means that HTML code was found which attempts to activate additional executable code without the user's express permission. This exploit can be used in a malicious web page or inside e-mail messages to execute code of the attacker's choice on the user's machine. Users of Internet Explorer and applications such as Outlook or Outlook Express that employs Internet Explorer to render HTML content are vulnerable to this exploit.
Microsoft have released a patch to address this issue. Please visit Microsoft for further information and to apply the relevant patches:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms04-013.mspx
This is the information on this..I hope that you all can just be warned and make sure you have your Virus scanners working! ;) This particular has a med-high destructive rating.
HTML.MHTMLRedir!exploit
Description Published: April 12, 2004
Description Modified: October 19, 2004
HTML.MHTMLRedir.exploit is a generic detection of web pages or e-mail messages which attempt to exploit the "MHTML URL Processing" vulnerability in Internet Explorer. For more information specific to this vulnerability, please visit our Vulnerability Information Center.
This does not necessarily mean that a virus has been found. It merely means that HTML code was found which attempts to activate additional executable code without the user's express permission. This exploit can be used in a malicious web page or inside e-mail messages to execute code of the attacker's choice on the user's machine. Users of Internet Explorer and applications such as Outlook or Outlook Express that employs Internet Explorer to render HTML content are vulnerable to this exploit.
Microsoft have released a patch to address this issue. Please visit Microsoft for further information and to apply the relevant patches:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms04-013.mspx