Prime95 itself will not be a target, it is not widespread enough to work
with.. however, nearly every desktop runs antivirus software, which
normally runs as administrator or system..
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I think looking at that file would at least provide interesting to the
curious among us. I say "go for it" :)
Aaron
PS - Regarding the running Prime95 as an NT service... I concur that if
you run it on your own machine, it's obviously not a security risk since
I'd hope that you're already a loc
Yes George,
A list of all bad results would be an excellent idea. It would go
a long way in helping us keep tabs on our computers and at the same time
keep the stats junkies - like those on Team Prime Rib :-) - accurately
informed on their contribution or lack thereof.
Anurag Garg
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At 07:28 PM 8/9/2002 -0700, Gary Edstrom wrote:
>That brings to mind another question. I was wondering what you
>do when you detect an error during double checking. Do you notify the
>person that sent in the erroneous result so that he can check out his
>computer further?
No, for several reason
At 11:33 AM 8/10/02 +0100, you wrote:
>A short time ago there was a discussion relating to the prime95 process
>running as System on NT/2000, and the subject of security issues relating
>to it being accessible from a normal user's desktop came up. The article
>linked below describes a serious
Gareth Randall wrote:
> A short time ago there was a discussion relating to the prime95 process
> running as System on NT/2000, and the subject of security issues
> relating to it being accessible from a normal user's desktop came up.
> The article linked below describes a serious security issu
A short time ago there was a discussion relating to the prime95 process running
as System on NT/2000, and the subject of security issues relating to it being
accessible from a normal user's desktop came up. The article linked below
describes a serious security issue caused by this scenario, in
> Referring to the work, recently in the news, of Mssrs. Manindra
> Agrawal, Neeraj Kayal and Nitin Saxena.
This is the same work to which Jens Pfeiffer referred in a
Wed, 7 Aug 2002 17:37:27 +0200 posting with subject
"Mersenne: find primes in polynomial time?"
Parallelling Paul Leyland's respo
Referring to the work, recently in the news, of Mssrs. Manindra Agrawal,
Neeraj Kayal and Nitin Saxena.
Thanks,
Stefanovic
