Re: latest MS virus

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From: Andy Harrison
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 00:00

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Bob wrote:

>
>
> >  The thing I don't get,
> > though, is that not everyone has a network card
>
> Microsoft programmers are taught to always assign a "reasonable default".
> This is probably a random number if there is no net card. In practice it's
>
> almost the same, since that number would be common to lots of cookies
> and tied to an IP. It's still bad.

I see now.   So it's sort of like when 98 is having connectivity problems and
can't see its DHCP server, 98 just picks 162.254.##.## for an IP, something
close to that.

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Date: 1999/03/11
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