> Microsoft just can't win... They get so much flak from people for having
> an "insecure" product that lets users choose to run trojaned .EXE files,
> so they grudgingly make the change, and they are suddenly big brother.
> Oy!
Where was Outlook was blamed for allowing someone to manually execut
MS-DOS doesn't care whether the extension on an executable
file is .COM or .EXE. It looks at the beginning of the file and
does the right thing according to what it finds (i.e. MZ or ZM).
Other identifiers will not work however.
Inasmuch as Win 9x series OS's are houses that MS-DOS built, the G
nd no flames welcome I have heard more then enough.
-Original Message-
From: Eric Lawrence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 1:56 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: outlook 2002 is a security freak
Hmm... Renaming the files before and after transfer worked