'twander' 2.29 Released

Tim Daneliuk tundra at tundraware.com
Fri Dec 20 16:40:07 EST 2002


GerritM wrote:
> Tim,
> 
> it sounds quite interesting. I tried to play with on a Windows98SE machine,
> where I ran into a very curious Windows bug. The .twander configuration file
> corrupts the windows system. Windows apparantly sees the dot (.), translates
> it in the current directory, ignores the rest of the filename and then
> denies any operation on it. I cannot delete the file in windows explorer, I
> cannot save it because the backup save of my PFE-editor is denied etcetera.
> Hopefully virus writers don't discover this bug, it opens possibilities to
> fill the system entirely with non deletable .nonsense files...

I will note this problem with Win32 and .xxx files in the next release -
perhaps even have the default name be something else.

> 
> Another strange effect is that the program accesses the internet, which is
> blocked of course by my firewall. I think that line 166 getfqdn() might be
> the culprit?

Yes, probably this is what's doing it.



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