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Member since August 11, 2000

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    Daniel Sabo

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  1. Comment - Senate Committee To Address XP Concerns

    (Jul 29, 2001 - 2:08 AM)

    With what MS charges for tech support I doubt they?d mind :-).

    Daniel
    A follower of the penguin.

  2. Comment - Windows 'Longhorn' To Succeed XP?

    (Jul 28, 2001 - 9:19 AM)

    You can't steal FreeBSD source code. That's the point of FreeBSD and the BSD license.

    Argon,
    A proud penguin user.

  3. Comment - Windows File Extension Bug Poses Threat

    (Apr 21, 2001 - 2:18 AM)

    Windows does have another method of doing this, it puts a hidden system file in the folder called desktop.ini . I don’t think this method is as fast though because they’ve been reducing their use of it since Windows 98.

    They have to do it with one of these methods though because the FAT and FAT32 file systems don’t store extra data about files. NTFS can store just about anything is a file resource, but that’s a whole different security risk :-P. (It’s a much worse one too.)

  4. Comment - Windows File Extension Bug Poses Threat

    (Apr 21, 2001 - 2:12 AM)

    The class ID is a long string of hex numbers inside of {}s. Stuff like the control panels and printers folder use these. A better enable would be briefcases since the control panels and printers folders usually aren’t displayed this way. (If you look up the class ID you can make them) This isn't a huge risk though because a hacker would have to get the class ID registered, witch would require you to run an executable or ini file.
    Oh yeah if you have TweakUI installed you can see the registered file and directory class IDs, it’s under desktop. Anything you can create as a file has a registered class ID.

    Some examples:
    Scheduled Tasks.{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}
    Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}
    Dial-Up Networking.{992CFFA0-F557-101A-88EC-00DD010CCC48}

    Just make the file extension of a directory into one of these and it becomes the special folder. They don't have to have the same names, these are just the default.