automagically opening a file in MS Word with a Virus

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October 19th, 2002, 07:01 PM

bizzk

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automagically opening a file in MS Word with a Virus

I just discovered that it's possible to automagically open an application like M$ Word with PHP's headers function. When you force Word to open a file infected with a virus the visitor gets infected with a virus.

I'm running linux (hehe) so i'm not able to test it but isn't this quite a big security risk???

Please correct me if i'm wrong, Filip de Waard

PHP code from a alper at http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php :

PHP Code:


		
			
 header("Content-type: application/x-msword"); header("Content-Disposition: filename="labels.doc");

November 1st, 2002, 07:17 AM

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Anything made by Microsoft is a security risk.

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November 1st, 2002, 12:13 PM

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i agree

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