RE: [twuug] Wired News : Hackers Crack Into MS System

[DJPowerPup <bigdave-productions@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Ethan wrote:

> Its not that easy. I doubt they modified the crap, they just got a trophy.

But what if they put in a little trojan that would send passwords, creditcard
numbers and the like to the hackers? Being it would be part of the OS's Source
code, the Virus scanners wouldn't pick it up. They could do the same thing w/
versions of IE, and it would get out even faster. I don't trust ANY of my
secure stuff to M$


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