Half a million Mac computers infected with malware

[Dustin]

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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Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too
many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and
the only thing that's wrong is to get caught. - J.C. Watts

[Dustin]

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

> In this case, he's posted a link to a description of the java
> vulnerability that pertains to the current issue with Macs (not sure why
> he did that). The content of the link contains no information specific
> to whether or not Win-98 is vulnerable.

KernelEx is an Open Source compatibility layer with an aim to allow
running Windows 2000/XP-only applications on Microsoft Windows 98 and
Microsoft Windows Millennium operating systems.

Thanks to that program you use, You are vulnerable to most NT based
baddies. Not only can you execute them, you have no control over the
damage they can do as you have no restricted users or UAC control of any
kind. The best you have is setting a files attribute to read/only.



--
Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too
many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and
the only thing that's wrong is to get caught. - J.C. Watts