Re: How Secure is Windows, Really? -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: How Secure is Windows, Really?
From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 19:39:03 -0600
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Scott Klement wrote:

But, still...  You could write a virus that would search out other systems 
on the Internet, and using SMB (/QNTC) could try to insert your program. 
Your program could then create some *PGM objects that inserted themselves 
into the system all over the place, and continued to use /QNTC to spread 
across the Internet... all very possible.


Can you create a *PGM object using QNTC?

david

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