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: References: <01bcf12e$d1f4c400$0c469acd AT jboehm DOT sdcoe DOT k12 DOT ca DOT us> Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremiah Gowdy Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In message <01bcf12e$d1f4c400$0c469acd AT jboehm DOT sdcoe DOT k12 DOT ca DOT us>, Jeremiah Gowdy 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 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".