Re: [OT] MS Security Flaw

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2000


It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = Maybe this will turn into an 800 pound gorilla (as far as the news service goes). Microsoft still needs to be humbled quite a bit more, I think anyway.> From: Vince Medina > Reply-To: (WebCatalog Talk) > Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 15:16:39 > To: (WebCatalog Talk) > Subject: Re: [OT] MS Security Flaw > > No hoax.. It's all over the news... > > APC Net, Inc. - sales@apcn.net - www.apcn.net > 4471 NW 36 St. #110 - Miami Springs, FL 33166 > Web Hosting,Web Design & Internet Services > > -----Original Message----- > From: WebCatalog Talk [mailto:WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com]On > Behalf Of Nicolas Verhaeghe > Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 1:08 PM > To: WebCatalog Talk > Subject: Re: [OT] MS Security Flaw > > >> NEW YORK - Microsoft engineers included a secret password in Internet >> software that could be used to gain illegal access to thousands of Web >> sites, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Two security experts >> discovered the rogue computer code in a three-year-old piece of software >> that contains the comment ''Netscape engineers are weenies!'' Although > there >> have been no reports of site access through the code, the file, called >> ''dvwssr.dll,'' is installed on Microsoft's Internet-server software with >> FrontPage 98 extensions and is believed to be used by many Web sites. >> Microsoft posted an advisory on its corporate site and plans to e-mail >> customers to delete the file. > > This sounds like a hoax. I do not use Frontpage extensions, but you never > know. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: [OT] MS Security Flaw (Brad Eisenberg 2000)
  2. Re: [OT] MS Security Flaw (Nicolas Verhaeghe 2000)
  3. Re: [OT] MS Security Flaw (Kenneth Grome 2000)
  4. Re: [OT] MS Security Flaw (Eric Ridgley 2000)
  5. Re: [OT] MS Security Flaw (Vince Medina 2000)
  6. Re: [OT] MS Security Flaw (Kenneth Grome 2000)
  7. Re: [OT] MS Security Flaw (Nicolas Verhaeghe 2000)
  8. Re: [OT] MS Security Flaw (Glenn Busbin 2000)
  9. Re: [OT] MS Security Flaw (Nicolas Verhaeghe 2000)
  10. [OT] MS Security Flaw (Glenn Busbin 2000)
Maybe this will turn into an 800 pound gorilla (as far as the news service goes). Microsoft still needs to be humbled quite a bit more, I think anyway.> From: Vince Medina > Reply-To: (WebCatalog Talk) > Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 15:16:39 > To: (WebCatalog Talk) > Subject: Re: [OT] MS Security Flaw > > No hoax.. It's all over the news... > > APC Net, Inc. - sales@apcn.net - www.apcn.net > 4471 NW 36 St. #110 - Miami Springs, FL 33166 > Web Hosting,Web Design & Internet Services > > -----Original Message----- > From: WebCatalog Talk [mailto:WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com]On > Behalf Of Nicolas Verhaeghe > Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 1:08 PM > To: WebCatalog Talk > Subject: Re: [OT] MS Security Flaw > > >> NEW YORK - Microsoft engineers included a secret password in Internet >> software that could be used to gain illegal access to thousands of Web >> sites, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Two security experts >> discovered the rogue computer code in a three-year-old piece of software >> that contains the comment ''Netscape engineers are weenies!'' Although > there >> have been no reports of site access through the code, the file, called >> ''dvwssr.dll,'' is installed on Microsoft's Internet-server software with >> FrontPage 98 extensions and is believed to be used by many Web sites. >> Microsoft posted an advisory on its corporate site and plans to e-mail >> customers to delete the file. > > This sounds like a hoax. I do not use Frontpage extensions, but you never > know. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Eric Ridgley

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