By Joris Evers
Published: Monday 19 February 2007
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Name
Roy Corneloues
Location
East Anglia
Occupation
Programme Manager
Comment
"In order to be successful, an attacker in advance would have to convince the user to enter the location of a file into an attacker's web page through social engineering."
There are hundreds of files on a PC who's location are already known, starting with c:\windows.
It appears Microsoft are trying to play this down, but this opens up the whole O/S to a potential attack...
"In order to be successful, an attacker in advance...
Roy Corneloues
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