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Re: Download Managers
From: "Vlad Tsyrklevich" <vlad () zoomstats org>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 16:26:46 -0800
Leon Pholi writes:
Hi,
Hi.
Just wondering on thoughts about download managers- do they pose are security risk? Any known to be trojaned? The one I use is GetRight, does anyone know if this one has known security issues?
I've heard good things about GetRight just so you know :-). I doubt it has any remote hole other then perhaps a buffer overflow in the length of a file name but I highly doubt that. The only security hole it might have is an accidental one (and this applies to all programs) but again as I said, I highly doubt it has one, I highly doubt few of the "big" (read: commonly used) have security holes/trojans because users would notice something and it would be found. -Vlad
---Vlad Tsyrklevich
Current thread:
- Download Managers Leon Pholi (Feb 26)
- Re: Download Managers Corey Schaffer (Feb 26)
- Re: Download Managers Vlad Tsyrklevich (Feb 27)
- Re: Download Managers Leo Security (Feb 27)
- RE: Download Managers John Hendren (Feb 27)
- Re: Download Managers Brad (Feb 27)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Download Managers SMiller (Feb 26)
- RE: Download Managers Allan Schon (Feb 27)
- Re: Download Managers nightowlcat (Feb 28)
- RE: Download Managers Leonard.Ong (Feb 28)