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To: Berlin_Freeper
I've asked Microsoft for more details on the feature and how it came to be. But so far, Redmond is silent on the topic.

Looks some programmer made a huge backdoor; and didn't document his work. Now, is this an exploit that anyone can use - or is already in use? As a rule, "undocumented features" are never a good thing.

3 posted on 04/23/2010 6:31:52 AM PDT by Hodar (Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
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To: Hodar

It works in Vista too.


4 posted on 04/23/2010 6:34:18 AM PDT by Abby4116
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To: Hodar
Looks some programmer made a huge backdoor; and didn't document his work. Now, is this an exploit that anyone can use - or is already in use? As a rule, "undocumented features" are never a good thing.

It's just a collection of the various control and configuration programs into one folder. There's nothing in there that wasn't there before, it's just been collected into one folder for you.

6 posted on 04/23/2010 6:39:10 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Hodar
Looks some programmer made a huge backdoor; and didn't document his work.

It'll probably get disabled with the next Auto Update. =;^)

20 posted on 04/23/2010 8:05:17 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.)
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To: Hodar

It’s not an exploit or back door, all it does is let you get to all the control panel stuff in one place, instead of it’s default scatter. From what they’re saying nothing that appears in that folder is stuff you can’t get to elsewhere.


23 posted on 04/23/2010 8:55:12 AM PDT by discostu (wanted: brick, must be thick and well kept)
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