Re: [Full-disclosure] hehelol

[devis <devis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

als@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 08:16:47PM +0200, kcope wrote:
> 
>>hello, this is kcope and i?m bored .. soo
>>
>>sending an email with an attachment named aux to a Microsoft Outlook 
>>client crashes Outlook, can someone confirm that?
> 
> 
> This crap _still_ works? 
> 
> This kind of crash is a legacy from MS-DOS and AFAIK only works on the
> Windows 9X/ME series (as in "graphic shell on top of MS-DOS" windows)
> of Windows, it should not work on the NT kernel based versions (NT,
> 2000, XP, 2003).
> 
> Anybody to test it on a version of Windows based on the NT kernel? (I
> run $FREEUNIX, so no way to test it myself). It shouldn't work there.
> 
> Regards,
>        Alex.

Try to make a folder on ur XP sp2 all patched ( yes supposedly NT based
) named aux, nul, con, lpt1,  lpt2, com1, com2 ... basically all MS-DOS
reserved device names... Was left to know it crashed some Outlook.

-d.
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