Re: Microsoft "FLAW" !!!

Dick,

Thanks for the "heads up".

Generally speaking, Pegasus mail:

   http://www.pmail.com

is much less vulnerable to this kind of cr*p since, by default, it refuses to render the more dangerous HTML unless the user puts in an over-ride.

Also, IMO, David Harris (@NZ) the author of Pegasus Mail, is a really cool guy (all that warm fuzzy, enlightened, universalist compassion and altruism stuff) that deserves support for taking independent, well reasoned (if sometimes rather understated) stands against the dominance of outrageous commercialism & materialistic values in the mainstream of the computer industry.

regards,
ep

On 18 Jul 2000, at 7:13, dgoulet_at_vicr.com scribbled with alacrity and cogency:

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Subject:        	Microsoft "FLAW" !!!
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> Since I know that some of you out there (like me) use Windows 95/98 and or NT,
> You may be interested in this from InformationWeek.
>
> ** Dangerous New Microsoft Cracking Threat
>
> The System Administration, Networking, and Security (SANS) Institute on
> Monday identified what it called "probably the most dangerous
> programming error" found in any workstation running Windows 95, 98,
> 2000, and NT 4.0.

...

> http://www.sans.org/newlook/resources/win_flaw.htm
Received on Tue Jul 18 2000 - 13:25:07 CDT