How could one exploit a single character, extentionless, disk file ?
There is NO association to an extentionless file.
It's like getting a car with no wheels or steering wheel. Your just not getting anywhere
with it.
Dave
| I appreciate the information.
|
| A year ago at this time, I was offline caring for my mother who was quite
| ill with bladder cancer and passed away in March of last year. Hence, I
| missed all the excitement. I did not return to full time action on these
| boards until June of last year.
|
| That said, would it not be possible for someone to exploit that little bug
| or knowing that such a bug exists to come up with a script that might just
| deposit such a file on the desktop, just to be annoying as is the case for
| many script kiddies?
|
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| Michael Solomon MS-MVP
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| | > And I had the same suspicion...about a year ago when the first of
| > about 10,000 posts concerning this issue surfaced. This is a long
| > standing and very well known Outlook Express bug at this point.
| >
| > Just a thought...
| >
| > GLCrews,MCP
| >
| >
| > On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:50:48 -0800, "Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows
| >
| >>If I see something of this nature, I'm inclined to have them run a scan as
| >>sometimes the sudden appearance of such files is an indication of
| >>something
| >>else going on. Perhaps the file itself is harmless but it may have been
| >>deposited by something that is recognized by Ad Aware. By the same token,
| >>some antivirus programs now have the capability of picking up adware,
| >>hence,
| >>from my perspective it doesn't hurt to run both.
| >
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