>> In my more cynical moments, I've occasionally thought it would be extremely useful if there were a rogue .exe/virus that actually did reformat hard drives. It would force evolution of computer users, or at least Darwinian survival policies. <g>
Brent, don't wish that....we'll all be beckoned to our [insert oblivious computer family member]'s house to determine what the hell happened. Cause it's more than likely they will fall victim to it.<g> -bc On Fri, 31 May 2002 09:02:33 -0700, Brent E. Rector <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >That's not a way "around" the security model any more than booting to a >DOS disk and running a program is, or installed a device driver. > >Sorry to be so blunt, but anyone that downloads an unknown .exe to >his/her hard drive and runs it, is a fool. > >In my more cynical moments, I've occasionally thought it would be >extremely useful if there were a rogue .exe/virus that actually did >reformat hard drives. It would force evolution of computer users, or at >least Darwinian survival policies. <g> > >-- Brent Rector, .NET Wise Owl >Demeanor for .NET - an obfuscation utility >http://www.wiseowl.com/Products/Products.aspx > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: franklin gray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 8:49 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [DOTNET] Strongly named assemblies require Full Trust ??? > > >Oh yeah :-) > >The funny thing is...there is a way around all this stuff. Create an >Exe and download it to the machine, then run it. Have that Exe call a >Web Service that returns a byte array(s) which is my dll(s) and exe. >Then save the array(s) as a file(s) on the harddrive, then kick of the >new exe. This will by-pass all that security stuff. So, in a way, the >security patch doesn't work....just makes it harder for us to do what we >want and puts the pressure on the user to know what he is doing when he >runs an Exe that he downloaded. > >You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or >subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
