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so, if a virus, malicious program manages to: "place a plain text file onto the computer" you are in serious danger of never being able to use the machine??? what if the exe in question is explorer, or some such? now would be a good time to tell me i have mis-understood the knowledge base article... please? i am oscillating between "this cannot be real" and "please tell me someone make this up", with visits to "the irony is unreal" maybe i need to get more sleep :)
zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
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so, if a virus, malicious program manages to: "place a plain text file onto the computer" you are in serious danger of never being able to use the machine??? what if the exe in question is explorer, or some such? now would be a good time to tell me i have mis-understood the knowledge base article... please? i am oscillating between "this cannot be real" and "please tell me someone make this up", with visits to "the irony is unreal" maybe i need to get more sleep :)
zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
feline_dracoform wrote:
what if the exe in question is explorer, or some such?
Heheh...that would be interesting, wouldn't it. Might be an experiment for a VMWare instance.
Once you wanted revolution
Now you're the institution
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feline_dracoform wrote:
what if the exe in question is explorer, or some such?
Heheh...that would be interesting, wouldn't it. Might be an experiment for a VMWare instance.
Once you wanted revolution
Now you're the institution
How's it feel to be the man?if you try i would certainly like to know the answer. i am curious as to just how bad the obvious "worse case" scenario is. i agree, VERY much a VMWare test :)
zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
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feline_dracoform wrote:
what if the exe in question is explorer, or some such?
Heheh...that would be interesting, wouldn't it. Might be an experiment for a VMWare instance.
Once you wanted revolution
Now you're the institution
How's it feel to be the man?You are the :badger:, err guinea pig :)
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if you try i would certainly like to know the answer. i am curious as to just how bad the obvious "worse case" scenario is. i agree, VERY much a VMWare test :)
zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
Boot. BSOD. Reboot. BSOD. Reboot. Fun stuff.
Once you wanted revolution
Now you're the institution
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You are the :badger:, err guinea pig :)
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Boot. BSOD. Reboot. BSOD. Reboot. Glad I did this with a VMWare instance.
Once you wanted revolution
Now you're the institution
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Boot. BSOD. Reboot. BSOD. Reboot. Glad I did this with a VMWare instance.
Once you wanted revolution
Now you're the institution
How's it feel to be the man?I was able to reproduce the crashes as well. Glad I didn't try it on my dev box :)
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Boot. BSOD. Reboot. BSOD. Reboot. Glad I did this with a VMWare instance.
Once you wanted revolution
Now you're the institution
How's it feel to be the man?You mean it gets stuck in an infinite BSOD loop? :omg:
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xacc.ide-0.2.0.57 - now with C# 2.0 parser and seamless VS2005 solution support!
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Boot. BSOD. Reboot. BSOD. Reboot. Fun stuff.
Once you wanted revolution
Now you're the institution
How's it feel to be the man?*note to self* be *more* paranoid about the things you download :)
zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
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You mean it gets stuck in an infinite BSOD loop? :omg:
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Well, I made an Explorer.exe.manifest file. So yeah, if I hadn't had to login to the machine (explorer doesn't load until after the GINA subsystem takes care of authenticating domain users), it would have literally been an infinite BSOD loop.
Once you wanted revolution
Now you're the institution
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Well, I made an Explorer.exe.manifest file. So yeah, if I hadn't had to login to the machine (explorer doesn't load until after the GINA subsystem takes care of authenticating domain users), it would have literally been an infinite BSOD loop.
Once you wanted revolution
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Well, I made an Explorer.exe.manifest file. So yeah, if I hadn't had to login to the machine (explorer doesn't load until after the GINA subsystem takes care of authenticating domain users), it would have literally been an infinite BSOD loop.
Once you wanted revolution
Now you're the institution
How's it feel to be the man?To bad you didn't do svchost.exe or one of the other services on the system.
and of course [they] outsource their technical support to a land where English bears little resemblance to the language I speak - Christopher Duncan
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To bad you didn't do svchost.exe or one of the other services on the system.
and of course [they] outsource their technical support to a land where English bears little resemblance to the language I speak - Christopher Duncan
I'll do that tomorrow when I get to work. I left the VM instance on an external drive there. This could be fun. :-D
Once you wanted revolution
Now you're the institution
How's it feel to be the man?