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   From: Dave Yeo    
      
   Trevor Hemsley wrote:   
   > On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 03:55:12 UTC in comp.os.os2.misc, Mike Luther   
   >   wrote:   
   >   
   >> I have actually   
   >> seen where external virus operations can attack even an OS/2 box using this   
   >> protocol to dump files into the OS/2 box in virtually every directory!   
   >   
   > Oh, please, what these viruses do is look at all your network shares and try   
   to   
   > write copies of themselves to them. There's nothing particularly special   
   about   
   > this. They don't "puncture" OS/2, they just find the drives that are mapped   
   and   
   > write to them.   
   >   
      
   The problem with our peer and older versions of Windows peer is the    
   password stuff is very weak. IIRC everything is upper cased and the    
   password has a 8 character limit which is actually broken into to 4    
   character pieces so it is relatively easy to brute force.   
   Dave   
      
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