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While perusing the half dozen magazines that arrived today my eye caught one article of interest. The latest version of Office for Macs is booby trapped. According to the author, traditional EULAs allowed two copies of a product, one on a PC, one on the laptop, so long as both are not in use at once. Perfectly sensible. Also according to this author, it is legal to split suites, such as installing Excell on one machine, Word on another (I find that to be stretching things a bit). In this new version, every time you start Office it launches a UDP packet on port 2222. If any machine on the network responds on that port with the same code number in the data packet, the application will immediately shut down. This, in turn, leaves port 2222 open to attack from anywhere on the network or off. Evil. Yet another good reason to start looking around for replacements!
Roger Wright wrote: it launches a UDP packet on port 2222. Simple solution, a personal firewall. I would think there are such products for the Macs as well. As for exploiting this, just respond to all 'pings' saying 'yep, thats me over there' :-D Bruce Duncan CP#9088, CPUA 0xA1EE, Sonork 100.10030
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While perusing the half dozen magazines that arrived today my eye caught one article of interest. The latest version of Office for Macs is booby trapped. According to the author, traditional EULAs allowed two copies of a product, one on a PC, one on the laptop, so long as both are not in use at once. Perfectly sensible. Also according to this author, it is legal to split suites, such as installing Excell on one machine, Word on another (I find that to be stretching things a bit). In this new version, every time you start Office it launches a UDP packet on port 2222. If any machine on the network responds on that port with the same code number in the data packet, the application will immediately shut down. This, in turn, leaves port 2222 open to attack from anywhere on the network or off. Evil. Yet another good reason to start looking around for replacements!
Roger Wright wrote: Office for Macs is booby trapped What's the big deal? So all 1200 MAC users left in the world get hacked. ;P
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I can recall while installing VS6 one of the EULA popups very clearly granted this permission, and Access2000 includes this provision, as well. But like you, I can't recall many since the last rational software house (Borland) used this provision. Of course, like most people, I rarely do more than glance at the silly document - just click Accept and move on. There's no point in it, as retailers now refuse to refund for useless software if the box is opened, and there's no way to read the EULA without opening the box. That, in itself, should be a crime.
Roger Wright wrote: There's no point in it, as retailers now refuse to refund for useless software if the box is opened, and there's no way to read the EULA without opening the box. That, in itself, should be a crime. Yeah, this sucks big time. EULA's should be banned once and for all. Can't you Americans ammend your constitution yet again so the whole world can follow suit ? Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
I think it's interesting that we often qu-ote each other in our sigs and attribute the qu-otes to "The Lounge". --- Daniel Fergusson, "The Lounge"
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Roger Wright wrote: Office for Macs is booby trapped What's the big deal? So all 1200 MAC users left in the world get hacked. ;P
Mark Nischalke wrote: So all 1200 MAC users left in the world get hacked. Has MAC usage doubled recently ? :-) Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
I think it's interesting that we often qu-ote each other in our sigs and attribute the qu-otes to "The Lounge". --- Daniel Fergusson, "The Lounge"
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Mark Nischalke wrote: So all 1200 MAC users left in the world get hacked. Has MAC usage doubled recently ? :-) Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
I think it's interesting that we often qu-ote each other in our sigs and attribute the qu-otes to "The Lounge". --- Daniel Fergusson, "The Lounge"
Didn't you hear, Apple bought a FireWire company. Apple snaps up FireWire company
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Didn't you hear, Apple bought a FireWire company. Apple snaps up FireWire company
I was going to start a firewire company. Damn, now I bet Apple will just crush any firewire initiative. They are really holding back firewire innovation. I should sue them. :) Tim Smith I know what you're thinking punk, you're thinking did he spell check this document? Well, to tell you the truth I kinda forgot myself in all this excitement. But being this here's CodeProject, the most powerful forums in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question, Do I feel lucky? Well do ya punk?
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Mark Nischalke wrote: So all 1200 MAC users left in the world get hacked. Has MAC usage doubled recently ? :-) Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
I think it's interesting that we often qu-ote each other in our sigs and attribute the qu-otes to "The Lounge". --- Daniel Fergusson, "The Lounge"
Aw this is just cold. :(( Everyone knows there's 1,230+ mac users now! :) I'm going to play with my mac friends now. I need the emotional support. :-O Jeremy L. Falcon "The One Who Said, 'The One Who Said...'" Homepage : Feature Article : Sonork = 100.16311
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Aw this is just cold. :(( Everyone knows there's 1,230+ mac users now! :) I'm going to play with my mac friends now. I need the emotional support. :-O Jeremy L. Falcon "The One Who Said, 'The One Who Said...'" Homepage : Feature Article : Sonork = 100.16311
Jeremy Falcon wrote: Aw this is just cold. Everyone knows there's 1,230+ mac users now! Baloney, Next you'll be claiming there is more than 8 Navigator uses as well. :-) Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
I think it's interesting that we often qu-ote each other in our sigs and attribute the qu-otes to "The Lounge". --- Daniel Fergusson, "The Lounge"
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Roger Wright wrote: traditional EULAs allowed two copies of a product, one on a PC, one on the laptop I've haven't seen a licence like that since Borland used to do it for their compilers. Can somebody provide an example of a licence which allows a user to install it more than once. Michael :-)
Michael P Butler wrote: Can somebody provide an example of a licence which allows a user to install it more than once. Symantec has this unusual provision in its EULA where if a licensed copy of Norton XYZ is installed on a business computer, and that computer is used >= 80% of the time by one person, that person can installed it on one of their computers at home. --Mike-- "Jobs that don't allow you to visit the Lounge 25 times a day at the minimum are not worth having anyway." -- Nish, 3/28/2002 My really out-of-date homepage Sonork - 100.10414 AcidHelm Big fan of Alyson Hannigan and Jamie Salé.
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While perusing the half dozen magazines that arrived today my eye caught one article of interest. The latest version of Office for Macs is booby trapped. According to the author, traditional EULAs allowed two copies of a product, one on a PC, one on the laptop, so long as both are not in use at once. Perfectly sensible. Also according to this author, it is legal to split suites, such as installing Excell on one machine, Word on another (I find that to be stretching things a bit). In this new version, every time you start Office it launches a UDP packet on port 2222. If any machine on the network responds on that port with the same code number in the data packet, the application will immediately shut down. This, in turn, leaves port 2222 open to attack from anywhere on the network or off. Evil. Yet another good reason to start looking around for replacements!
Roger Wright wrote: In this new version, every time you start Office it launches a UDP packet on port 2222 Can anyone confirm if this is something that is happening with Office XP for Windows at all? Nick Parker