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Xeen:
I found this article on M$'s site that says that Windows Media Player is open up to attack from intruders unless patched because of the code it uses in changing skins!!!!

How the fuck is this possible?? How could a MEDIA PLAYER be written in such a way that it allows hackers to get into your pc???

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=012f143a-77d1-4f6f-9338-5a6332614532&DisplayLang=en

Stilly:
its possible when you integrate that shit in your OS

Laukev7:
Perhaps the same way that allows script kiddies to use a word processor to execute macro viruses or hackers to exploit the DirectX game API.

Seth:

quote: How the fuck is this possible?? How could a MEDIA PLAYER be written in such a way that it allows hackers to get into your pc???
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Maybe when they outsourced their projects to places like India, etc., programmers there put in backdoors into the OS.
If memory serves me right, didn't the first infamous virus come from Pakistan in the 80s, and was called, appropriately, the Pakistani virus ? Two brothers selling pirated softwares from their shop would sell infected softwares to Westerners because, and their reasons were,  these foreigners were deliberately breaking their countries' laws by buying these pirated softwares and should be punished, whereas the locals were sold virus free softwares because they were not breaking any Pakistani laws (as there were none)!! IIRC, they even had the audacity to leave their address in the inner most sector of the pirated softwares' floppies.

[ September 08, 2003: Message edited by: Seth ]

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