From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Geo"  wrote in message
news:433759e3$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> The one to which you have the code seems harmless to me, I'd have no
> problem
>> allowing it to be used. Also, since the *other* DLL (VB runtime or
> something
>> like that) is from MS, I don't think it'll be a problem.
>
> That's the part that makes me nervous, usually there should be some input
> checking before passing untrusted input to that "other MS" dll.

There's never any input checking. Never. Only really pedantic and boring
people do it, and even they usually forget the most basic things. People
like whoever gave you the source code to his/her DLL *never* write input
validations where it matters. 


Antti Kurenniemi
(there were no comments in the code, nor were you (I assume) given good
explanations of what it does - to me, that tells a lot)

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