Does this writing to an EXE bypass Anti-Virus protection against programs that write to EXE's? How about a less damaging example that writes to say "C:\temp\example.exe" so we can see what it does safely? At 21:16 8/30/1999 -0400, SysAdmin Wrote: <snip> > >ANY Windows 98 file can be overwritten. Period. If you try and manually >pasting over or destroying the file you will be denied, however Active X can >help where you can't. In fact, ironically, after it's been corrupted you >cannot fix it because you are denied from touching it! If Windows 98 is >restarted or crashed (hint, forced to crash), then it will fail start up >with a Fatal Exception, you can only recover from DOS by restoring the file. >I would like to note, for the record, that the vast majority of home users >who will never know about the patch to this file or know what Active X even >is are not in possession of 98 install disks. Rather they are in possession >of a disk that restores the computer to factory original. Despite David >LeBlanc et al. assurance that we could just disable Active X I'm discussing >it because you know your poor parents are NEVER going to, how would they >understand the instructions? And, of course, what average user could EVER >recover from this sort of damage? > <snip> > >The link is http://www.sassproductions.com/hacked.htm > <snip> Joshua MacCraw http://www.warpmedia.net mailto:jmaccrawat_private
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