Re: Ilfak's interview is being slashdotted

[Pierre Vandevenne <pierre () datarescue com>]

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
  

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