win32: structured storage

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Fri May 6 07:22:44 EDT 2005


tlviewer wrote:
> hello,
> 
> In honor of the chm exploit that I got hit by last week, I trying
> to code some ActivePython to list the directory inside a CHM.
> 
Welcome to the world of the "drive-by download". Now you know why people 
are recommending migrating away from IE.

 > CHM is supposed to be structured storage (ITSF). If a given CHM
 > file is infected it most likely has an embedded EXE file -- mine
 > had one called [Open.exe].
 >
Ironic, really, since Microsoft insist that the browser must be 
fully-integrated with the operating system I suppose that measn we had 
better all start using Linux.

regards
  Steve
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