From: Gregg N 

Geo wrote:

>"John Beckett" 
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>>The article you posted with the "PoC" is nonsense. It is
just OBVIOUS that
>>a scripting language can do bad things. We don't need some kid to tell us
>>that. If anything, the kid is guilty of yelling "Wolf".
He has nothing to
>>say, and is only going to dull the senses of the public if it ever turns
>>out that there is a problem with Monad.
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>This "kid" showed us more, he showed us that a kid can write
a virus using
>monad, he showed us that virus writers are going to target monad, and he
>showed us that there really isn't anyone at MS who is going to stop either
>of these things from happening.
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>But OK, for you and Rich, after looking into the details, I can't find where
>anyone was claiming this wasn't possible, in fact it appears everyone but MS
>has been claiming that this is possible and needs to be addressed, all this
>kid did was remove any doubt.
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>Geo.
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All he did was show that you can write a script that finds and modifies
text files for which you have write access. You can do the same thing with
a batch file. What is there that you believe needs to be addressed here?

Gregg

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