From: Paul AT chocolat DOT foobar DOT co DOT uk (Paul Shirley)
Subject: Re: Pentium bug halts system
16 Nov 1997 11:01:53 -0800
Message-ID: <jHOSwcA7rxb0EwEy.cygnus.gnu-win32@foobar.co.uk>
References: <01bcf12e$d1f4c400$0c469acd AT jboehm DOT sdcoe DOT k12 DOT ca DOT us>
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To: Jeremiah Gowdy <coldfusion1 AT geocities DOT com>
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

In message <01bcf12e$d1f4c400$0c469acd AT jboehm DOT sdcoe DOT k12 DOT ca DOT us>, Jeremiah
Gowdy <coldfusion1 AT geocities DOT com> writes
>BUT, before people start to freak out, this CANNOT be used to crash people in 
>HTTP (world wide web protocol) FTP EMAIL/SMTP/POP3 IRC or anything else I can 
>think of except a protocol which can automatically copy a file onto your hard 
>drive and then execute it.

Its called ActiveX.
A major component of Active Desktop amongst other things.

-- 
Paul Shirley
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