Re: IE5 allows executing programs

[jmaccraw () WARPMEDIA NET (J MacCraw)]

Does this writing to an EXE bypass Anti-Virus protection against programs
that write to EXE's?

How about a less damaging example that writes to say "C:\temp\example.exe"
so we can see what it does safely?

At 21:16 8/30/1999 -0400, SysAdmin Wrote:
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> ANY Windows 98 file can be overwritten. Period. If you try and manually
> pasting over or destroying the file you will be denied, however Active X can
> help where you can't. In fact, ironically, after it's been corrupted you
> cannot fix it because you are denied from touching it! If Windows 98 is
> restarted or crashed (hint, forced to crash), then it will fail start up
> with a Fatal Exception, you can only recover from DOS by restoring the file.
> I would like to note, for the record, that the vast majority of home users
> who will never know about the patch to this file or know what Active X even
> is are not in possession of 98 install disks. Rather they are in possession
> of a disk that restores the computer to factory original. Despite David
> LeBlanc et al. assurance that we could just disable Active X I'm discussing
> it because you know your poor parents are NEVER going to, how would they
> understand the instructions? And, of course, what average user could EVER
> recover from this sort of damage?
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> The link is http://www.sassproductions.com/hacked.htm
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Joshua MacCraw
http://www.warpmedia.net
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