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PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 1:22 pm    Post subject: Tuesday Tech Madness [16366] Reply with quote

Microsoft Products Fail to Restrict "shell:" Access - Jesse Ruderman has reported a vulnerability in MSN Messenger and Microsoft Word, allowing access to the Windows "shell:" functionality. The problem is that the programs fail to restrict access to the &

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 3:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes it is possible to use parameters with the programs.
No MSN Messenger is not affected
It's the meaning that it can work locally
And no there are no known shell exploits in IE that aren't fixed.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 8:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Delayed Windows SP2 Denies Access to Illegal CD Keys

"....This time around Microsoft may have found a much more destructive way to get rid off Illegal copies of WindowsXp than Service Pack1........But now Microsoft has armed itself with a huge list of illegal CD keys ensuring that SP2 does not install. CORRECTED: It has been rumoured that the boot sector of the OS would be modified rendering the OS unusable."

A what if scenario.......

An unknowing computer user had purchased a computer with a pirated copy of WinXP. One day, decides to go and update their machine......as rumored, MS wreaks havoc on the OS, and user loses all their data.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 9:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NOTHING wrote:
Delayed Windows SP2 Denies Access to Illegal CD Keys

"....This time around Microsoft may have found a much more destructive way to get rid off Illegal copies of WindowsXp than Service Pack1........But now Microsoft has armed itself with a huge list of illegal CD keys ensuring that SP2 does not install. CORRECTED: It has been rumoured that the boot sector of the OS would be modified rendering the OS unusable."

A what if scenario.......

An unknowing computer user had purchased a computer with a pirated copy of WinXP. One day, decides to go and update their machine......as rumored, MS wreaks havoc on the OS, and user loses all their data.


official stanse on that would be, a well shit happens! you should always backup your information regularly!!

Whats ur opinion Bill?
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 11:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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CORRECTED: It has been rumoured that the boot sector of the OS would be modified rendering the OS unusable.

hahahaha.... whoever started this rumour is completely clueless.
A: an OS does not have a boot sector. A hard drive does, but calling that you OS is akin to calling your case the CPU (sic)
B: MS would never do this cause it would come back to bite them in the ass. they'd end up screwing the MBR on a legitimate users hdd who's key had got keygen'd by warez kiddies then blacklisted. they arent going to put them self in such a risky position
C: Im already running SP2RC2 with a keygen'd PID640 key. no problems here. If any arise, I'll just boot knoppix to get to my debian partition and reinstall grub.
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