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Hack Proofing Your Web Applications
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Hack Proofing Your Web Applications

by Syngress
June 2001
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
512 pages
18h 49m
English
Syngress
Content preview from Hack Proofing Your Web Applications
Understanding the Risks Associated with Mobile Code • Chapter 3 91
The possibility of someone creating a macro-virus was first brought
up in about 1996, but it wasn’t until the Melissa virus appeared in 1999
that the impact was felt on a global scale. Melissa was created with VBA
in a Word document.The following code snippet has been modified
slightly from the original Melissa code.The code will create an instance
of Outlook and send out an e-mail that claims to be from the current
user. If we replaced the code in Figure 3.3 with the following Melissa
code (and attached the document to an e-mail message), the macro
would be able to spread:
Set UngaDasOutlook ...
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ISBN: 9781928994312