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
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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
