On Saturday, May 29, 2004 at 11:45:08 AM, Andrew Aronoff wrote: > Dan needs to check this with REGEDT32.EXE. If that's the case, he'll need > to confer additional permissions to get the macro to work.
If read permissions are not sufficient to read the key, the macro is broken. > It's unlikely that malware would target this particular key just to reset > the time zone. Forget malware. There is an evil user in every multi user environment. ;-) Changing the system time is a privileged operation. When files have invalid time stamps you can break all sorts of backups, installers, updates, ... > And if it did, the tasks would run, but not at the intended time. A continuous time stamp is even more important, than the correct time stamp. Being able to change the order of automatic tasks can cause more harm than being able to prevent tasks from running. > IMHO, the risk is *extremely* low. Depends. Regards, Frank -- ________________________________________________________ http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
