Pentium bug halts system

Paul Shirley Paul@chocolat.foobar.co.uk
Sun Nov 16 10:51:00 GMT 1997


In message < 01bcf12e$d1f4c400$0c469acd@jboehm.sdcoe.k12.ca.us >, Jeremiah
Gowdy <coldfusion1@geocities.com> writes
>BUT, before people start to freak out, this CANNOT be used to crash people in 
>HTTP (world wide web protocol) FTP EMAIL/SMTP/POP3 IRC or anything else I can 
>think of except a protocol which can automatically copy a file onto your hard 
>drive and then execute it.

Its called ActiveX.
A major component of Active Desktop amongst other things.

-- 
Paul Shirley
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