Re: Blame Bill Gates for ILOVEYOU

From: \[ Robert-Coyote \] (coyyote@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon May 08 2000 - 16:42:23 MDT


Alex wrote: "Harvey, I'm not aware of any such backdoors"

I'm no expert but the fact that net bios is bound to wan side DUN by
default, after it has been complained about forever, is one obvious example.

When I was a software tester at MS, and complained about this issue, they
said "so what.. it doesn't matter.. shut up", 2 weeks later OOB attacks
became very popular.
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