XP Attack against Microsoft Help and Support Center Viewer

Wiz Feinberg · From: Mid-Michigan, USA

XP users beware: highly dangerous attack gives hackers immediate control.

Symantec today reported a new kind of attack that is exceptionally dangerous using Microsoft Help and Support Center Viewer. With this attack, hackers gain immediate access to the victims computer, rather than having to figure out a way to get the attack code to load (access to a start-up file, a reboot, social engineering).

An attacker tricks a victim into visiting a Web page that loads a binary file of malware via an arbitrary file-overwrite. It also overwrites a help system file, which has the power of executing scripts. The attacker uses this to execute the malicious binary file. Symantec says:

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