Re: Service Pack 896358

Subject: Re: Service Pack 896358
From: Lou Quillio <public -at- quillio -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:19:48 -0400


Rochelle McAndrews wrote:

Perhaps, just maybe if we all start contacting MS in droves, they may
consider looking into the malfunction.

I don't think that'll help. What I'm taking away from the KB articles is that malware purveyors have discovered compiled HTML (CHM) as a vector for leveraging MSHTML's power over the local system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSHTML

Why a rendering engine should have such power in the first place (can you say ActiveX?) is the real question -- and you won't get an answer to that. It's not a bug ... it's a feature!

LQ

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