Re: Warning! First worm that hits TB! too...

[Andrey G. Sergeev (AKA Andris)]

Hello!


Wednesday, May 02, 2001, 5:12:59 AM, Ben Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

BM> But the problem is Ritlabs lack of response to known security issues.
BM> Hackers will have a heyday with TB if Ritlabs continues to bury its
BM> head in the sand instead of promptly addressing these issues.

What kind of reaction do you expect from the RitLabs?

BM> One poster mentioned an undocumented registry hack would eliminate the
BM> potential execution of the worm you brought to the list's attention.
BM> If this is the case ( and I have no first hand knowledge that it is)
BM> Ritlabs should have notified its clients
BM> and had a reg edit executable on its site for download.
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BM> It would be a no-brainer for any programmer to crank out in a couple
BM> of minutes.

Wonderful! :-E. Have you ever heard of the program called Registry
Editor (regedit.exe - for Win 9x/ME, regedit.exe/regedt32.exe for the
Win NT4/2K)?


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Yours sincerely,

Andrey G. Sergeev (AKA Andris)     http://www.andris.msk.ru/

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