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Re: Ilfak's interview is being slashdotted
From: Pierre Vandevenne <pierre () datarescue com>
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 00:57:40 +0100
Good Afternoon, I am still amazed at the level of confusion around this one btw... The fix was not a patch in the usual sense of the term. It may sound like a rethorical distinction, but it isn't: no windows files were modified by applying the fix. At the conceptual level, what the fix did isn't very different from what early DOS TSRs did when they hooked an interrupt vector. At the practical level, what the fix did isn't very different from what anti-virus and other utilities did to intercept the automatic execution of macros in Word documents before Microsoft did it. (and disabling automatic macro execution did break a lot of functionality for quite a few people). -- Best regards, Pierre mailto:pierre () datarescue com _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Ilfak's interview is being slashdotted Gadi Evron (Jan 06)
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- Re[2]: Ilfak's interview is being slashdotted Pierre Vandevenne (Jan 06)
- Re: Ilfak's interview is being slashdotted Matthew Murphy (Jan 06)
- Re: Ilfak's interview is being slashdotted Jon O. (Jan 06)
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