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To: Fred Fahmy who wrote (39499)	11/7/1997 8:41:00 PM
From: Barry Grossman	Respond to of 186894

Fred - Re: Collins - " a kook who has a personal vendetta against Intel. He has devoted much of his life to trying to discredit Intel" This personal vendetta appears to be his life. He is simply the nth degree of some of the others we have seen here over the past year and a half. A bit more sophisticated propaganda and malevolent bs. Barry

To: Fred Fahmy who wrote (39499)	11/7/1997 9:19:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Fred, >>Do you call that a bug??<< You may call it whatever you wish, but the ugly fact remains unchanged: ANY MULTIUSER SYSTEM can be crashed instantly, and without any info who did it. This is a major security hole, do you understand that, IS-planner? There are hundreds of cracker and virus makers who would love to explore this opportunity, just in days! Every P5 in such systems must be replaced. The question is: by which processor? I even can think of Intel conspiracy here - they left this hole wilfully with intent to make faster transition to P-II/PPro systems when the time will come... Great job, Intel.

To: Fred Fahmy who wrote (39499)	11/8/1997 2:12:00 PM
From: Gary Kao	Respond to of 186894

Good analogy, except that you couldn't throw OTHER cars at a distance into Park, including very expensive ones, like the way this "virus" has been described to have the power to affect ISP servers by malicious users logging on. Is this BS? Gary. >IMO, this is NOT a bug, but more like a virus. This is like saying all cars have bugs because if you throw them in reverse while speeding down the highway it will crash the car. Collins admitts that the problem can only be initiated by issuing an ILLEGAL instruction. Do you call that a bug?? Are viruses just bugs that better processors would ignore??