Re: RFP9903: AeDebug vulnerability

From: Joe Melhado (subsat_private)
Date: Wed Oct 06 1999 - 14:43:16 PDT

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    At 02:24 PM 10/5/99 , David LeBlanc wrote:
    >One other thing to consider is that when user processes crash, they can
    >sometimes create a user.dmp file, which like UNIX-style core files can
    >sometimes contain information useful to an attacker.  There is a way to
    >turn this off, but I don't recall what it is at the moment.
    
    Control panel / system / startup shutdown
    Clear the "Write debugging information to" checkbox
    
    Joe
    



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