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echo: aust_avtech
to: Paul Quinn
from: David Drummond
date: 2004-04-13 06:31:00
subject: Re: Locking Windows

G'day Paul

12 Apr 04 22:21, Paul Quinn wrote to John Tserkezis:

 >>> It seems the cookie files are engineered so that they don't start
 >>> with "MZ"

 JT>> If it starts with MZ, (the initials of the guy who laid out the
 JT>> format of EXE files if I recall) then it's an EXE, otherwise
 JT>> it's a plain machine language COM.

 PQ> "MZ" stands for Mark Zbikowksi who was the principal architect of 
 PQ> DOS.

What ever the guy's name, I do not think the mere prepending of the letters
MZ to something will make it actually execute.

Regards,
David

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