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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Did microsoft really write an OS/2 "Terminator" crash prog?
- Keywords: terminator microsoft crash
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.214005.21240@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 21:40:05 GMT
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <laird.725643909@thistle.ecn.purdue.edu> laird@thistle.ecn.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird) writes:
- >>Hmmm... I heard that they would just delete CONFIG.SYS and hit Ctl-Alt-Del.
- >>That's devastating enough. Combine that with a well place "pssst! We've
- >>got a program that'll crash OS/2 everytime" rumor and you can do the same
- >>amount a damage -- and all low tech.
- >Shouldn't a COMDEX exhibitor take precautions against this sort of thing?
- >While C2 security might be overkill, something simple seems necessary.
- >I'd sure love some simple security that would keep people from deleting
- >files like config.sys. I thought that something like that was available
- >for OS/2, but I can't recall.
-
- PC/DACS (available at a trial price of $49 from Pyramid -- don't know
- if that offer still holds) does just what you ask.
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