Re: Windows Media Player executes WMF content in .MP3 files.

From: Alun Jones (alun@texis.com)
Date: 03/05/02 

From: alun@texis.com (Alun Jones)
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 16:32:46 GMT

In article <a62e74$i16$1@208.20.133.66>, Bruce Barnett
<spamhater20@grymoire.com> wrote:
>*) Because of the protection of the UNIX OS, it should be impossible
> for an ordinary user to damage the system unless they execute the program
> with special privileges. That's the way UNIX was designed. The
> worst a user can do is to destroy their own files. But if you have
> a backup, you can log in as root, restore the user files, and
> continue on without rebooting the computer.

Not all versions of Windows treat every user as 'root-equivalent'. Don't
forget that there's a big difference in security between a Windows ME system
on a FAT volume, and a Windows XP Pro system on an NTFS volume (especially in
a well-administered domain environment).

Alun.
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