Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 1 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > BTW, a neat trick I picked up from a budding "cracker" at work:  (I chastised
> > him severely for the action, but you gotta love his spirit!)
> >
> >       We completely lock down the factory floor workstations running
> >       Win95 using a product called WinLock95.  There's nothing runnable
> >       on that machine outside the data entry application they need and
> >       IE4 for their quality manuals.  I felt pretty comfortable with
> >       the situation.
> >
> >       Wrong!  IE gives you the ability to browse the network by just
> >       punching in the domain (e.g. \\GRAND_RAPIDS).  Surf to your
> >       hearts content.  Read whatever you'd like.  BAH!!!
> 
> Guess i shouldn't tell you you can excecute things from the address bar
> also. huh

Well known.  The other "fun trick" for these guys is playing with the
clock.  It seems there's no way to _display_ the clock without also
allowing the ability to modify the system time on Win95/8.  We caught it
when we suddenly had around 600 units of inventory with an aging date of
-31 days.  

Remind me again why I love this job?  :)

-- 
Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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