FreeLists / arachne / [arachne] Re: Fw: Re: Arachne

[Rob <robo13@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Windows runs with quite a few ports open for different
reasons and programs. All are vulnerable. You certainly
don't need a browser to get bugs in. Software packages
in shrink-wrap have been found to harbor virii and such.
If you're running a FAT file system, then you have
absolutely no security immunity from anything, that's
why the government and corporations pressured M$ to come
up with NTFS in the first place.
Rob

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On Tue, 6 May 2008, Greg Mayman wrote:

> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
>
> On Sun, 04 May 2008 09:19:00 -0400, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>
> > > What's the difference?  Doesn't seem like such a big deal to me
> > There really is a big difference and it is a big deal to me.
> > When one is running Arachne in a Window$ dos box he has to leave
> > the Windows open and let all the bugs come flying in.
> I was experimenting with Win98 and one of my DOS programs which is
> currently having trouble on that computer, and found one mode which
> closed Windows when the DOS prog was run.
>
> Also, from what I have read, it is Internut Exploder that lets in the
> bugs, not the Win OS.... sorry to have upset your lovely simile <GGGG>
>
>
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