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It's all fun and games until a rootkit finds a vulnerable executable to elevate privileges and really get going... just one mixed up bound check, missing end o
by qbasic_forever 6y ago
It's all fun and games until a rootkit finds a vulnerable executable to elevate privileges and really get going... just one mixed up bound check, missing end of string, etc in 20 year old code and oops!
Don't run any of those old apps as an admin at the very least.
- romwell 6y agoIf the said rootkit is already running on my machine, I probably have larger things to worry about than a possible vulnerability in 20-year-old software. And yeah, there is very rarely a need to run apps as admin anyway.