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To: Harvey Allen who wrote (23906)	4/15/2000 9:16:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

Weenie jibe in FrontPage leaves MS web servers wide open theregister.co.uk The Register couldn't resist this one, Harvey. The code, in dvwssr.dll, is commented "Netscape engineers are weenies!" But considering the consequences of its discovery, that probably makes Microsoft engineers suicidal bozos. I don't know about that, but considering Microsoft's general reputation for shipping reliable software on time, I'd say Microsoft engineers reside in the mother of all glass houses. It seems to be possible to fix the hole by simply deleting dvwssr.dll, but the delay in publishing the alert perhaps suggests that the code isn't entirely pointless. If it turns out to be, maybe Microsoft could publish us a list of any other useless DLLs it ships... Those Register guys are just so ... sassy? The CNET article went into that angle much more seriously, of course. Cheers, Dan.