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IE bug opens users' hard drives to Bill By Bob Staff Writer, CNET News.com October 32, 2002, 12:00 p.m. PT Microsoft is refusing to patch a browser security hole that allows Microsoft to view and manipulate files on users' hard drives. A demonstration of the newly discovered hole, dubbed "Ass" after what the person who discovered it was sitting on, has been deleted by Microsoft from the Web. Bill Gates himself
Microsoft can take advantage of this hole any time a user is connected directly to the internet or is behind a Microsoft firewall. Microsoft can view and manipulate a users files just as easily as the local user can, except with full administrative rights on NTFS drives. Microsoft has little interest in individuals data, just assimilateable technological information Bob said, making the hole an unlikely menace for most users. The hole uses integrated operating system calls to access the file and send the information back to Microsoft. Bob also said that the bug could and would be used to access and eliminate the few remaining non-Microsoft computers on the Internet. Bob re-emphasized that everybody must use Internet Explorer because the Internet is exclusively designed for Microsoft Windows. The Ass hole isn't the first IE bug to allow Microsoft to access users files. Microsoft hid a similar hole last month, and another one last year. Bob said that while the end result is the same for users, the underlying causes of the holes were distinct. "They all have to do with ActiveActive, but takes advantage of different ActiveActivation MS-Modules within IE," Bob said. The MS-Module at issue with the Ass hole, "MSIWillLetMyMasterIn," lets Bill access data through a hidden FTP like command. The security hole affects all version of Internet Explorer for all platforms: Windows 2000, and Windows 2002. Users may not remove Internet Explorer from their computer or disable it. One lady from Oregon reported a nasty experience with this hole. "I was just sitting at my computer when all of a sudden Bill Gates popped in to my computer and started removing my files. Then, an image of Bill gates mooning me appeared and my computer shut down. The next day, Microsoft announced a new product based on the information that was in my files.", the lady reported. Since reporting this, the lady has mysteriously disappeared. "This is what we get for letting Microsoft dominate the Operating System market and then the browser market. They have control over every little thing we do.", ranted a strange man outside of our office, "how can you even try to post this information on the web? Microsoft will never approve and will remove it at the first chance they get." ->edit mode
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