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Re: security and ms?



hi all,

i am a newbie to linux. I have registered here to get some info about Linux.
But I am observing that instead of solving queries, we are more into
Microsoft bashing.
----- Original Message -----
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <mallet@xxxxxxx>
To: <linux-india-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 12:47 AM
Subject: Re: [LIG] security and ms?


> Mayuresh A Kathe rearranged electrons thusly:
>
> > Has he spoken about how?
> > Awaiting your reply.
>
>  Try sending a trojan + backdoor like Qaz.  A few computers at M$ HQ in
Redmond
>  got infected by a deliberately sent copy of Qaz, causing at least one
server
>  there to be compromised - this was a few months back.
>
>  Or if the outlook version is old, there are any number of exploits with
>  javascript / vbscript (and windows scripting host) ...
>
>   -s
>
> --
> Suresh Ramasubramanian  <-->  mallet <at> efn <dot> org
> EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
>
>
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