Vulnerability Development mailing list archives
Re: Bug or just having fun in Word
From: Fab Siciliano <fsiciliano () EARTHLINK NET>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 01:11:54 -0500
Hey, about that bug. It was strange, at the time the email came in, I was looking at fonts! coincidence? I ran filemon, and regmon, and all I found were references to a file called "MSGR2EN.LEX" located in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\PROOF. All the words that belong to the sentence that is *also* used in previewing FONTS, can be found in that file(MSGR2EN.LEX). hmmmm, where am I going with this... I guess I would say that if Micro$oft was open source, they wouldn't be offering money to try and figure this thing out. You'd have to *see* where those variables appear in the code. I'm not too familiar with coding or anything, but isn't "rand" a variable found in JAVA Script? Hmmm, anyways Everyone have a good day, night, whatever it may be. -Fab ----- Original Message ----- From: Holland, Stephen <Stephen.Holland () NEXTEL COM> To: <VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 2:50 PM Subject: Bug or just having fun in Word
Not even Bill Gates can explain this one! Try this: Open a Word document and type this: = rand (200,99) Press enter and wait 3 seconds... Microsoft will reward $$$ to anyone who can explain it.
Current thread:
- Bug or just having fun in Word Holland, Stephen (Mar 15)
- Re: Bug or just having fun in Word Fab Siciliano (Mar 16)
- Re: Bug or just having fun in Word Derek Kwan (Mar 16)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Bug or just having fun in Word Fred Hoot (Mar 16)
- Re: Bug or just having fun in Word Ervin S. Odisho (Mar 16)
- Re: Bug or just having fun in Word Alberto Román (Mar 16)
- Re: Bug or just having fun in Word Jim Goltz (Mar 16)
- Re: Bug or just having fun in Word Juan M. Courcoul (Mar 16)
- Re: Bug or just having fun in Word (GalaxyMaster) // D$C (Mar 17)
- Re: Bug or just having fun in Word Ian Kayne (Mar 16)
- Re: Bug or just having fun in Word Hellman, Henrik (Mar 20)