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To: Bearded One who wrote (9964)	8/6/1998 1:27:00 AM
From: mozek	Read Replies (3) of 74651

OK. MS bashers (Hal, etc) on this thread are blowing this out of all proportion. Given enough motivation, I guarantee I can write an equivalent program for any system with a user running as sysadmin (the only choice for Win9x, MacOS). This goes for Windows 9x, MacOS, NT, and Unix. This is simply a remoting program that hooks into user events on the target system. These crackers could only get it running on Win95. They are obviously only interested in hype against Microsoft. They would have written a remote program for NT if they had any real skill. To say that this is a security hole is assinine. BTW, I'm not specifically directing this at you Bearded One, but I do think you should know better. Remember sexygirls.com, the web site that convinced users to download and run a program that dialed a 1-900 ISP in Russia? Same potential risk. Same idea. If I convinced someone to download a set of Java classes, put them on their classpath and run them, I could do the same thing. Zero security. Of course, it might be easier to convince someone to do that because people have a false sense of security about Java. I have better things to do with my time. This is NOT a security hole. Mike

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