HP Laptops previously rated as one of the best laptops are now in some serious problems because the softwares installed can make the hackers hijack your laptops very easily.
The main problem was started by a dll file which was marked as “Safe for Scripting” and this seems to be the second problem coming out of the HP Laptops this year. With no quick patches coming out for this problem at the moment your data on HP Laptops is not safe and can he hijacked anytime by a hacker. Only suggestive measures to be on safe side is to run Firefox browser using NoScript firefox extention and not opening any website which you feel may be suspicious and are not aware of the URL.
The Preinstalled software in the Laptops is the main problem which is originally a “HP Info Center” and is designed to help out users in quick system info and hardware configuration using a single touch button.
Attacks can be of the following types :
Remote code execution
Remote system registry read/write access
Remote shell command execution
The Attacker can modify files on your HDD, execute his WWW Links which you can block by using a different browser than Internet Explorer, remote registry data modification ie malware installation and DOS Attacks.
Vulnerable Software:
HP Info Center v1.0.1.1
HPInfoDll.dll ActiveX CTL v1.0Internet Explorer 6.0
Internet Explorer 7.0Windows XP Home
Windows XP Pro
Windows 2000
Windows 2003
Windows Vista
Vulnerable Hardware:
These are the following laptop series which are confirmed to be vulnerable. You just need to contact the seller of your laptop for the latest patch releases and stay secure with a Strong Antivirus.
HP 510 Notebook PC
HP 530 Notebook PC
HP Compaq 8710w
HP Compaq 8710p
HP Compaq 8510w
HP Compaq 8510p
HP Compaq 6910b
HP Compaq 6715b
HP Compaq 6510b
HP Compaq 2710p
HP Compaq 2510p
HP Compaq NC series Business Notebook PC
HP Compaq NC6230
HP Compaq NC6220
HP Compaq NC8230
HP compaq NX series Business Notebook PC
HP compaq NX7300
HP compaq NX6120
HP compaq NX8220
HP compaq NX6325
HP compaq NW series Mobile Workstation
HP compaq NW9440
HP compaq NW8440
January 7th, 2008 at 5:22 am
Oops just baught a HP dv6516TX hope thi model is not Vulnerable