From: Paul@chocolat.foobar.co.uk (Paul Shirley) Subject: Re: Pentium bug halts system 18 Nov 1997 16:24:43 -0800 Message-ID: References: <34700B7B.7F060ED8@technologist.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Prescod Cc: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" In message <34700B7B.7F060ED8@technologist.com>, Paul Prescod writes >Please don't raise the Active-X boogey-man. New Active-X controls do not >get installed and run without user permission. Having visited a www site this week that refused to progress past the title page unless I enabled ActiveX and accepted ActiveX controls, I find it a more credible 'boogey man' than I used to. In this case I was trying to get insurance quotes (I went elsewhere;) And yes, a virus is more likely in a malicious attack. I don't remember disagreeing with that ;) (Although I would have a fighting chance in an english court claiming this crash bug was not hacking as defined in law) -- Paul Shirley - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".