re: Active content trouble
Wednesday, February 14, 2007 at 4:47 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4061 messages posted)
|Few days ago I removed some advanced Malware from my system;
| s.jester
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What tool did you use?
|My AV resident shield didn’t detect it because is was advanced Malware.
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Interesting theory. The rest of your description leaves me dubious.
|I received it when I was viewing an M$ Word document in Windows Wordpad.
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"Received" seems an odd word to use.
I doubt the connection between the use of that app and the infection
is that concrete.
|It was stealth executable Malware within the content
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Now you're just making up stuff.
A non-executable file format cannot execute code (with the exception noted below).
|Now after that, I am afraid to open any .DOC, .XML, .HTM, (download)
|in case active content is within.
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The kinds of malware associated with M$ Office files formats are "Macro Viruses".
Any modern anti-virus app will find them and kill them.
If an exploit is so new
that the most recent virus definition file doesn't include it,
THEN you might be at risk[1]
**if** you open the document with a M$ payware app which runs the macro.[2]
Wordpad does NOT execute macros.
[1] This is usually a TINY window of vulnerability.
The standard work-around is to let the file "cool off" for a day or more
after which you update your virus signatures, scan the file, THEN open it.
[2] Visual Basic for Applications was a really STUPID idea.
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- Active content trouble (s.jester: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 at 4:27 pm)
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