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Old April 10th 12, 12:59 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics,microsoft.public.test.here
Eagle
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Default Thank you.

After serious thinking Tim Meddick wrote :
A great many, I should think! Like the millions of XP machines that populate
internet cafés and have not, as yet, been upgraded...

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"~BD~" wrote in message
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Tim Meddick wrote:

If your query referred to the ability of a batch file to disrupt an
NT-based system - then my answer would have to be ; "only if such a
batch-file was executed by a user with administrator privileges (on XP
only - vista / W7 gives an extra warning asking if it was you who really
initiated some risky code) would it be able to remove the essential
boot-loader system-file "ntldr" - otherwise, normal limited users would
be protected from such dodgy batch-code by the default usage-rights of
files and folders that reside within the root of the system-drive."

Plus, if the batch-file (or any one of a number of "vulnerable"
executable file-types) was downloaded from the internet, systems from 2K
onward give an extra warning of possible risk on any user attempting to
execute it for the first time.

But you'd have to a bit mental in the first place to deliberately
execute a strange batch-file that you had not first investigated it's
contents for yourself - let alone leaving it to AV scanning!!...

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)


Thanks for commenting, Tim.

I wonder how many folk using a computer with an XP operating system do
*not* operate with administrator privileges! ;-)


Go play with your muslimer pals you top posting ****wit.

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