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Re: Pentium bug halts system
- To: Paul Prescod <papresco at technologist dot com>
- Subject: Re: Pentium bug halts system
- From: Paul Shirley <Paul at chocolat dot foobar dot co dot uk>
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 16:41:58 +0000
- Cc: "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
In message <34700B7B.7F060ED8@technologist.com>, Paul Prescod
<papresco@technologist.com> writes
>Please don't raise the Active-X boogey-man. New Active-X controls do not
>get installed and run without user permission.
Having visited a www site this week that refused to progress past the
title page unless I enabled ActiveX and accepted ActiveX controls, I
find it a more credible 'boogey man' than I used to. In this case I was
trying to get insurance quotes (I went elsewhere;)
And yes, a virus is more likely in a malicious attack. I don't remember
disagreeing with that ;) (Although I would have a fighting chance in an
english court claiming this crash bug was not hacking as defined in law)
--
Paul Shirley
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