Yahoo Messenger Vulnerability

ByHaitham Alani

Contents Introduction. Overview on Yahoo Messenger Yahoo Messenger Registry Overview on Windows Architecture Exploitation of Windows API Caruso Trojan Mechanism. Solutions.

Introduction

In computer science the security considered one of the important issues to evaluate the efficiency of the operating systems.

In spite of the wide usage of Yahoo Messenger but still there are many vulnerabilities that could be found inside it which affect the security.

The problem lies on the architecture of Yahoo Messenger and Microsoft Windows.

Yahoo Messenger .

Yahoo Messenger Registry .

Yahoo Messenger Registry

Windows Architecture

Exploitation of Windows API

Caruso Trojan Mechanism.

The Notification

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Solutions?