19 Jan
2010
19 Jan
'10
7:39 p.m.
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com>wrote:
I'm not pointing this out to beat on poor Josh!
I'm not! I just think it's
an interesting angle that support for legacy 16-bit MS-DOS and Win3.1 apps
has
apparently lead to the unearthing of a 17-year-old Windows NT security flaw
I thought Microsoft nixed the old DOS routines, along with the OS/2
compatibility layer, in Windows XP? It's near-insanity to keep those low
level routines around this long - they should have been virtualized a long
time ago. Heck, DOSBox runs DOS software better than the console nowadays.