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Exploder Hostile ActiveX Control Information
| Name: |
Exploder |
| Category: |
Hostile ActiveX Control |
| Advice: |
Remove |
| Risk: |
Elevated Risk
Elevated threats are usually threats that fall into the range of adware in which data about a user's habits are tracked and sent back to a server for analysis without your consent or knowledge. |
| Description:
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Exploder performs a clean shutdown of Windows 95 from a web page.
Exploder is a demonstration that ActiveX can be dangerous. It is possible that a misguided person might misuse Exploder in some way that would produce an unwanted shutdown of a person's PC by placing it in an unexpected location on a web site, but it's also possible to misuse just about anything.
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| Signatures:
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process: exploder1b3.exe: MD5 Hash: 67a9c4eee0cd0159b07.. |
| Type: |
Hostile ActiveX Control - A hostile ActiveX control is an application installed in Internet Explorer, usually by a drive-by-download. Once this application is installed it can run as a normal program on your computer, many times hidden to the user. In addition it has full access to your system and can download and install other applications as well. |
Top Hostile ActiveX Control Visited Pages:
Exploder - 27 visits
Unclassified.ActiveX.Trojan.A - 22 visits
ActiveX.Downloader.Spybouncer - 19 visits
AxNTService - 19 visits
AxNTFileSecurity - 17 visits
AxNTRegSecurity - 15 visits
Random Hostile ActiveX Control Pages:
AxNTFileSecurity
Exploder
Unclassified.ActiveX.Trojan.A
ActiveX.Downloader.Spybouncer
AxNTRegSecurity
AxNTService
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