Anthrax
Description Anthrax
This virus stays resident in memory. It infects COM- and EXE-files and MBR of the hard disk in a standard way. The MBR is hit when an infected file is started. The virus saves its part and the MBR sector at the location 0/0/2 (track/head/sector).
The virus infects memory while booting from an infected disk. After that it infects files only. The virus hooks INT 21h and contains the strings: "ANTHRAX", "(c) Damage, Inc".
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Exploit.Applet.ActiveXComponent
Description Exploit.Applet.ActiveXComponent
Exploits a security breach in MS Internet Explorer and Outlook - (com.ms.activeX.ActiveXComponent security vulnerability).
This security flaw gives remote scripts and HTML pages access to any ActiveX control, which is installed on a victim's computer. The remote script can gain full control of a victim's computer, including the ability to read and write files on hard disks.
Trojan programs like JS.Trojan.Seeker and JS.Trojan.Fav use this vulnerability to modify a browser's start and search pages and to add links to the "Favorites" folder of Internet Explorer.
The Microsoft company released a patch that removes the com.ms.activeX.ActiveXComponent security vulnerability. We recommend visiting http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q275/6/09.ASP and installing this patch.
Exploit.CodeBaseExec
Description Exploit.CodeBaseExec
The suspicious message "Exploit.CodeBaseExec" means that HTML page being scanned contains code exploiting the Microsoft Internet Explorer Arbitrary Program Execution Vulnerability, aka the Local Executable Invocation via Object tag vulnerability.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0 treat objects invoked on an HTML page with the codebase property as part of the Local Computer zone, which allows remote attacks to invoke executables present on the local system through objects such as the popup object.
Vulnerability IDs:
bugtraq id: 3867
cve: CAN-2002-0077
More information on this vulnerability can be found at the following links:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms02-015.asp?frame=true#CVE-CAN-2002-007
http://online.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/vulns-item.pl?section=info&id=3867
Microsoft released a patch on March 28, 2002 that eliminates this vulnerability in Internet Explorer. To download this patch go to the following link: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/critical/Q319182/default.asp
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