On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Jeff Smith wrote:
: The only thing that the / access gave Klez was (potentially) more files : to harvest email addresses from. As far as drive access, the author was : much more concerned about having write access to the home directory. If : anybody is interested, here is the article: : : http://articles.linuxguru.net/view/198
I feel like having a seafood grillout today, even though I'm vegetarian. Today's special is... RED HERRING... with a FUD buffet on the side.
If arbitrary code is being executed on *any* platform, there's no way we can help the poor sap. This is not restricted to Windows. A person can run a trojan horse on any system.
: a *windows* program really gain from that? Viewing system config files : in notepad? ;-> Is it just a solution in search of a problem?
There's plenty of application. To put it in short, convenience to be able to use a Windows program on an arbitrary file. (I put in my / mapping when I needed to run MS Media Sprayer on a group of files for an obscure Windows-only codec, and didn't want either to move the files around or create a specialized mapping for just that file group.)