Jim Thompson wrote:
First, Windows ME by some definitions can't be rooted, since it only has
one user.
You're going to argue semantics?
This was mostly a pun, not a structured debate.
*Systems Not Affected
Linux, Macintosh, OS/2, UNIX, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me
Right, so
be extremely surprised. The best I've ever found is one that will
propagate to shared drives on the network that have manually turned on
read/write sharing on the root of the hard drive regardless of whether
they set a password on the share. No sharing is enabled on windows ME
by default.
I
Jim Thompson wrote:
I told him to not connect it to the Internet, because it would be
rooted in minutes.
http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/1511
Its ugly out there...
I haven't found a link to the original article or anything, but this
sounds largely absurd. A statement like this requires
First, Windows ME by some definitions can't be rooted, since it only has
one user.
Think of it as a feature, not a bug. ;)
Second, any worms that might do any sort of automatic rooting almost
certainly do NOT apply to the dos-based versions of windows. From
sarc.com about blaster worm:
--- Eric Hattemer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The only people who have it right are OSX and a few linux
distributions. OSX has no open ports by default. Almost all
Linux
distributions have ssh enabled by default, which has had a few
exploits. I strongly believe that ALL open ports should be
On Jul 5, 2006, at 11:37 PM, Eric Hattemer wrote:
Jim Thompson wrote:
I told him to not connect it to the Internet, because it would be
rooted in minutes.
http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/1511
Its ugly out there...
I haven't found a link to the original article or anything, but this
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/30/AR2006063001587.html
More than 70 million Windows users will no longer be eligible
for software security updates under a Microsoft Corp. policy to
take effect July 11... Microsoft will end support for Windows
98, Windows 98 Special
And if you think there is no more Win98/WinME in the world, my neighbor
just asked me to help him get his new computer (built for him by a
friend) on-line while that friend fixed his other machine.
The new computer (which is actually for his daughter to use): A P4
with 128MB or RAM running
