YIKES user.exe stupidity.
DJ Delorie
dj@delorie.com
Fri May 14 13:42:00 GMT 1999
> Some nice netizen downloaded user.exe and managed to overlay his
> system32/user.exe with it. See the recent user archives for details.
Yowza! We should have thought of that earlier. Imaging how many more
Linux machines there'd be ;-)
> Here's the obvious suggestion, rename user.exe to usertools.exe without delay.
Done! At least, when the ftp mirrors update themselves.
I added a user.exe.README that explains what happened.
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