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Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 20:37:59 -0400
To: best-of-security@suburbia.net
From: twiggy@accel.net (Twiggy)
Subject: Re: BoS: Re: Gaping Security Hole
Cc: twiggy@accel.net
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"SekrtyXprt@aol.com" wrote:

>croyston@netcom.com (Chris Royston) writes:
>>
>>This was a "feature" of the early beta copies of Windows 95.  It allowed 
>>a way of killing the screensaver incase of a system lockup.  This was 
>>fixed in the original "final" version of Windows 95.  I guess the 
>>workaround is to get a non-beta copy of Windows 95.

[snip to comment about time-wasting posts]

>I'm running final straight out of the box from best buy. (unless they're
>selling beta software now?)  Maybe you should try things before you waste
>people's times with these types of posts?  In newer betas it may have been
>fixed but the one at all the retail stores hasn't.  

  every 95 box i've tested this on does not demonstrate
  this terrible "security hole" and to be honest the idea
  of a "gaping WINDOWS 95 security hole" is pretty funny.
  perhaps you should ask who is wasting who's time, the
  individual reporting that this "bug" was not found, or
  the one posting to BoS about the "gaping hole" that some
  unidentified eeeeevil hackers will use to penetrate the
  otherwise formidable security of high profile, sensitive 
  installations like walmart and best buy.

  twiggy