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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ed who wrote (27604)	7/31/1999 12:38:00 AM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

COMPUTERS VULNERABLE TO SOFTWARE SABOTAGE, COMPANIES ADMIT Computer giants MICROSOFT and COMPAQ admitted on Friday that Internet pirates and pranksters now have the ability to damage millions of computers worldwide "via e-mail or through commands sent from a malicious Web site," according to Saturday editions of the NEW YORK TIMES. HEWLETT-PACKARD would not admit as of Friday that certain of its computers are open to Internet sabotage as well. MICROSOFT and COMPAQ blame "several significant software security flaws" for this problem, and say that users of "Microsoft's Windows operating system and Internet Explorer browser in combination with other programs" are specifically vulnerable. These security flaws not detectable through anti-virus programs. The revelation is already drawing a public debate about the security problems that come with MICROSOFT'S dominance in the software market, and their strategy of "bundling". Berkeley computer science professor Doug Tygar: "A single operating system and single provider of tools dominates the market. Because Microsoft is linking all these aspects of computing, all the walls that usually prevent such attacks aren't there." A MICROSOFT official said on Friday that the company is already working on the flaw, and both MICROSOFT and COMPAQ emphasize that these flaws have yet to be exploited. drudgereport.com