G'day Ben, Paul,
> ] If anyone has it, send it to me too, just so I can open it up in
> ] Pegasus and laugh...oh it's getting late.
> Put me on the list. I will laugh harder as I'm using ARACHNE for
> mail.
Bad luck lads. I actually had 5 emails with DOC attachments sent to me
last week from our state government - which uses a Win NT + Outlook
setup - but I deleted them after reading. And this was just before I
saw the 9pm news and learned that the entire state government computer
network had just been killed by Melissa virus. So I probably had it;
but as Ben suggests, Arachne is immune!
Ironically, there was much official rejoicing about "efficiency",
"simplicity" and "reduced costs" when the various govt departments
ditched their assorted Unix-Lotus Notes-Pegasus-WfW email systems for
the "advanced new email standard" MS Outlook on NT4. ;-))))
> BTW I read somewhere that you could crash a 9x/NT computer by sending
> a packet to port 139 or something "because their TCP/IP sucks". :)
> I tried www.microsoft.com but they must have applied the patch.
That bug relates to "oversize" TCP/IP packets. Instead of ignoring
them, Win 9x/NT tried to pass them to the destination port or
application, but the packet would "overflow" into other parts of RAM -
which usually crashed the computer.
www.microsoft.com _doesn't_ use Windows NT servers. Apparently, NT
can't handle millions of hits per day; and NT server clusters don't
scale well.
cheers,
Fraser Farrell
http://www.dove.net.au/~fraserf/
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