Re: [OT] MS Security Flaw

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2000


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 30476
interpreted = N
texte = > 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 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)
> 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 Nicolas Verhaeghe

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