Duran
Description Duran
It's a memory resident dangerous BOOT- and MBR-infector. On loading from infected floppy it infects MBR of hard drive. Then it hooks INT 13h and infects floppies on accessing them. It saves the original MBR sector on 2nd HD sector and original Boot sector into the last drive sector. It erases the MBR sector sometimes. It contains the internal text strings also:
(c)AVB91
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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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