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Re: Pentium bug halts system
- To: "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Pentium bug halts system
- From: Paul Prescod <papresco at technologist dot com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 04:16:43 -0500
- References: <jHOSwcA7rxb0EwEy@foobar.co.uk>
Paul Shirley wrote:
>
> In message <01bcf12e$d1f4c400$0c469acd@jboehm.sdcoe.k12.ca.us>, Jeremiah
> Gowdy <coldfusion1@geocities.com> writes
> >BUT, before people start to freak out, this CANNOT be used to crash people in
> >HTTP (world wide web protocol) FTP EMAIL/SMTP/POP3 IRC or anything else I can
> >think of except a protocol which can automatically copy a file onto your hard
> >drive and then execute it.
>
> Its called ActiveX.
> A major component of Active Desktop amongst other things.
Please don't raise the Active-X boogey-man. New Active-X controls do not
get installed and run without user permission. The point Jeremiah makes
is a good one -- average users are not at risk from this bug. Only ISPs
and others who allow foreign code to run are at risk. If someone wants
to harm me through Active-X, exploiting the Pentium bug is one of the
least harmful of the things they can do (as Jeremiah pointed out!).
Paul Prescod
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