Virus Guy <Virus@Guy.com> wrote in news:4F7F6EED.900DC7E1@Guy.com:

> In any case, since Oriface patched the JRE a couple months ago, and
> since JRE version 6 does run under win-98 with kernelEx (and hence any
> patch to version 6 is therefore applicable to win-98) why would someone
> make a claim that win-98 is vulnerable?

That reminds me. KernelEX gives you some NT like extensions right?

So here it is. RC5 released. Fixes most of reported problems and further
enhances compatibility with NT-only applications. Enjoy!

Yes it does... This is another potential weakness in your win9x machine
then. It is capable of executing some NT specific malware thanks to your
3rd party support. That means, it can run an NT based worm without the
benefit of non admin level security.

> Any windoze OS is vulnerable if the patch isin't applied.

Your win9x box is vulnerable to some NT code bases as it will try to run
them thanks to you installing an app to provide what it doesn't have. That
goes for some forms of NT based malware too.




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