Making CD drive open up

[jeenyes]

A friend of mine told me a guy in a chat room of hers can make her CD drive open. She thinks this is really funny.
My question is, how did he do this? I told her to be careful that he might have caused her to download something so he could have gotten control of her PC. Or am I being paranoid?

[Bigjakkstaffa]

No your not being paranoid. Get her to download avg from www.grisoft.com, update it and run it and see if that finds anything also download soem sort of trojan scanner/removal software and give that a run. Also stop frequenting chatroom's theyre a hive of scum and villany

--Jakk

[BipolarBill]

If ActiveX controls are enabled in Internet Explorer (most are) and you visit a web page with a script telling the CD drives to open, they will. This is essentially a "cheap magician's trick" and shouldn't be taken seriously. More serious matters are handled well by IE's security features.

[DocEvi1]

Originally posted by BipolarBill
More serious matters are handled well by IE's security features.

makes a change

Stefan

[nothing]

That could be a trojan. Once upon a time, when I got my first computer and everything was new to me, I used to play with trojans and most of them had "the power" to open other people's cd-rom drivers.

[AllGamer]

I agree, to be on the Safe Side, i'd suggest your friend to Scan her computer with a new and updated AntiVirus software, to make sure it was not a trojan