Dear Joicy,
As for Windows 98, I'll wait until the Milennium until I actually begin
to think about that, LOl. Just trying to stay on top of Windows 95,
before I will think about 98. yikes.......let the brains adjust and get
over the problems and then I will try to find "windows 98 for dummies"
in say 10 years for me, LOL.
God Bless
marty
Becker, Joicy wrote:
>
> This information came to me through The Chronicle of Higher Education.
> For the full article, and links to Microsoft and Netscape, go to the
> following site, sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Energy, Computer Incident
> Advisory Capability. Hope this info is helpful...Joicy
>
> http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/i-077a.shtml
>
> INFORMATION BULLETIN
>
> I-077A: Mime Name Vulnerability in Outlook and
> Messenger
>
> July 28, 1998 00:00 GMT
>
> PROBLEM: A buffer overflow vulnerability has been identified in
> Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, and Netscape Messenger
>
> (Mail) that allows an e-mail or news message to contain
> malicious code in a mime header. That code is executed
> when the
> header is processed by the e-mail/news reader. All of
> these
> e-mail/news readers are widely distributed with popular
> packages such as Internet Explorer, Windows 98, Windows
> 97,
> Office 97, and Netscape Communicator.
> PLATFORM: Any platform that runs the vulnerable e-mail/news readers:
>
> Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Macintosh and Solaris.
>
> DAMAGE: If exploited, this vulnerability allows a remote user to
> run
> arbitrary code on a users machine with the user's
> privileges.
> The remotely executed code could do anything from sending
> thousands of e-mails in the user's name to formatting the
> hard
> drive.
> SOLUTION: Apply patches from Microsoft and Netscape.
>
> VULNERABILITY Risk is high. While we have not yet heard of anyone
> exploiting
> ASSESSMENT: this vulnerability for malicious purposes, the ease with
> which
> it can be exploited, the wide distribution of vulnerable
> readers, and the potential for damage makes it a very
> serious
> problem.
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