Nick FitzGerald wrote: > > I'd say that's because you changed the filetype; pif files simply > > contain information on how to handle a DOS executable; they aren't a > > program themselves. All you did was make it get confused and kill > > itself. > > Yeah, but how long is it now since we've been telling programmers > "don't trust user-supplied data"?? (Hmmmm -- does it also fail on > W2K3??) No, in W2K3 you get "Cannot query the properties for this program. There may not be enough memory available. blah blah" as opposed to 100% cpu in 2K. Curt Purdy CISSP, GSEC, MCSE+I, CNE, CCDA Information Security Engineer DP Solutions ---------------------------------------- If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked. -- former White House cybersecurity adviser Richard Clarke
