CIACTech02-002: Microsoft Browser Helper Objects (BHO) Could Hide Malicious Code
August 14th, 2008 by NewsBrowser 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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Source: CIAC
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