CIACTech02-002: Microsoft Browser Helper Objects (BHO) Could Hide Malicious Code

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CIACTech02-002: Microsoft Browser Helper Objects (BHO) Could Hide Malicious Code

Browser Helper Objects (BHO) are Microsoft's way of attaching add-ins to Internet Explorer 4 and later. In addition to legitimate uses, BHOs are used to attach spyware to a user's web browser to secretly send a user's browsing habits to a marketing site and could be used for malicious code. The problems are that there is no simple way to know what BHOs are attached to a system and no simple way to control the attachment of new ones.

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http::cookies::microsoft

HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			     HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft(3pm)

NAME

       HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft - access to Microsoft cookies files

SYNOPSIS

	use LWP;
	use HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft;
	use Win32::TieRegistry(Delimiter => "/");
	my $cookies_dir = $Registry->
	     {"CUser/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/Shell Folders/Cookies"};

	$cookie_jar = HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft->new(
			  file	   => "$cookies_dir\index.dat",
			  'delayload' => 1,
		      );
	my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new;
	$browser->cookie_jar( $cookie_jar );

DESCRIPTION

       This is a subclass of "HTTP::Cookies" which loads Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x and 6.x for Windows (MSIE) cookie files.

       See the documentation for HTTP::Cookies.

METHODS

       The following methods are provided:

       $cookie_jar = HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft->new;
	   The constructor takes hash style parameters. In addition to the regular HTTP::Cookies parameters, HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft recognizes
	   the following:

	     delayload:       delay loading of cookie data until a request
			      is actually made. This results in faster
			      runtime unless you use most of the cookies
			      since only the domain's cookie data
			      is loaded on demand.

CAVEATS

       Please note that the code DOESN'T support saving to the MSIE cookie file format.

AUTHOR

       Johnny Lee <typo_pl@hotmail.com>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2002 Johnny Lee

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.10.1							    2011-02-27					     HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft(3pm)

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