A website wants to open web content using this program on your computer TCP/IP Route Command after 5 security plugins
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So this Korean bank website where I can do internet banking, forced me to install 5 different plugins for security and now when I try to use some feature it shows this message,
A website wants to open web content using this program on your computer
Name:TCP/IP Route Command
Publisher: Microsoft WindowsDo not show me the warning for this programme again
Allow / Don't allowSounds very icky.
What does this do?
And why does a website need TCP/IP Route Command?
And 5 plugins goddamn it.
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Korean
Found your problem.
Yeah, I had to install 3 additional plugins to use another feature. Total 8 plugins installed.
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The number of plugins I need to do online banking in the UK is zero, yet it's about as secure as it can be; what the hell are they doing over there that they need 8?
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what the hell are they doing over there that they need 8?
And they only work with Internet Explorer.
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Sweet merciful Chaos and Zombie Jesus, Korean online banking sucks.
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Ok, 8 plugins didn't work. It just crashed so I chose a different option and it wanted me to install another additional plugin. So I installed it and that gives us 9.
And all the Korean text in the plugins is garbled.
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Oh my fecking god.
The last step has an input field for a phone number and it would somehow repeat the last digit twice so it didn't work and the only way was to start all over again.
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Out of curiosity - what bank is it?
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It's called KB KookMin bank.
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Ok I give up.
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Be sure to put a formal complaint somewhere. Companies never change anything if there are no formal complaints.
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Companies never change anything even if there are formal complaints, unless it's from the regulator. Even then they typically do just enough to avoid being fined too heavily.
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Why does an online bank want to fuck with your OS's routing table?
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I think maybe your computer is now a member of the Korean bot army.
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I thought we were talking about South Korea.
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I assumed that, too. But what makes you think South Korea doesn't have a bot army?
I don't know what all this stuff is he had to install, but I would be massively surprised if it actually improved the security of his system overall. Or even maintained parity.
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Doesn't South Korea have a legal requirement that banks do this kinda shit for online banking?
I remember seeing somewhere that they require some form of IE only plugin to verify your identity or some ahit like that...
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The Korean government requires all banking service there use the government-mandated plugin to "protect the connection".
That's why if you have MSDN subscription, there are versions of install image (and activation keys) named with "K" in the end - these system disk have the required plugin preinstalled. (And those with "KN" means Korean version without media player)
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The Korean government requires all banking service there use the government-mandated plugin to "protect the connection".
...and, likely, to provide a back door side channel to the government. Never forget how snoopy governments are.
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...and, likely, to provide a back door side channel to the government. Never forget how snoopy governments are.
Well, I know the Internet is censored in South Korea. It would be naive to think the government wouldn't put a backdoor in those thing when they can totally just do it.
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Sweet merciful Chaos and Zombie Jesus, Korean online banking sucks.
Korea is the reason they kept ActiveX on so long. Korea was using it for "security" features (like on-screen keyboards and such) long after the rest of the world had dropped it like a hot potato.
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Why does an online bank want to fuck with your OS's routing table?
for Security.
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I do hope you were doing all this plugin installing inside a VM? Can you change banks?
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Sounds very icky.
What does this do?
And why does a website need TCP/IP Route Command?
Is this sarcasm/common user impersonation, or have you been visiting tdwtf by accident? I can't tell. And why can't I tell?? O_o
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What?
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If a website I was going to wanted to run kernel-mode code on my computer, I wouldn't.
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What could possibly go wrong??
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@RaceProUK said:
what the hell are they doing over there that they need 8?
And they only work with Internet Explorer.
South Korea has a history of creating their own encryption standards (SEED, ARIA), then requiring online commerce use these special snowflake standards. Browsers have no incentive to support standards that are only used in one country, so you are stuck with IE and plugins.