[Sussex] Yet Another Windows Bug

[Macdonald-Wallace, Matthew J]

Works a treat here @ uni, jus tested it on the comp... :D

How bout this for an idea...

1. An email is sent causing the users version of outlook to crash.
2. a second email follows it, offering the user a "Clean up tool"
3. the "Clean up tool" is either
	a. A batchfile that wipes the hd, then installs gentoo
	b. a copy of BO2K for a bit of a laugh

/me wonders at evilness of self... :D

Matt

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Nik Butler [mailto:nik at wired4life.org]
>Sent: 03 May 2003 08:49
>To: Sussex
>Subject: [Sussex] Yet Another Windows Bug
>
>
>Following on from a Slashdot.org story it appears that the vole has
>discovered ( reworked ) yet another windows bug. 
>
>
>
>apparently if you create a malformed tag in HTML then any application
>using schwapi ( IE or Outlook reading HTML ) will barf.
>
>the offending line would look like
>
><input type crash> 
>
>where crash could be the word crash, sussex, slugs, butterfly. 
>
>the article is here
>
>
>http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9288
>
>Now this makes me think of the following wonderful ways to get back at
>MS for breaking standards and causing other applications to barf.
>
>
>as MS relies on quite a lot of Open Source products to carry 
>its content
>to the desktop it would be a terrible shame if people started doing the
>following.
>
>
>[1] Add a small amount of HTML to the end of all EMAILs containing
>malformed HTML
>
>[2] Add a rewrite rule in apache that passes a little malformed HTML to
>the clients.
>
>
>As users dont differentiate between client issues and server 
>issues they
>will all start getting really annoyed with Outlook and IE and start
>demanding better reliability. Where in the clueful step forward with
>Mozilla and (A.N. Other ) Mail Client.
>
>
>Now I am not really condoning the use of malicious code to sabtoage
>another vendors product but I am suprised that this bug which 
>exposes MS
>products to a easily created weakness has lasted so long against PATCH
>updates.
>
>Yours thoughts SLUGS.
>
>
>ps.
>I use Mozilla and Mutt ... whats a Crash ?
>
>
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