Author: Howard Exner
Date: 17:27:56 11/12/00
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On November 12, 2000 at 17:14:01, Mike S. wrote: >On November 12, 2000 at 15:41:24, Torstein Hall wrote: > >>On November 12, 2000 at 14:48:24, Mike S. wrote: >> >>>On November 12, 2000 at 14:17:13, Dan Newman wrote: >>>>(...) >>>>You get this worm by turning on drive sharing. (...) >>> >>>Could you give a short description where this option is set (Win98 or Me)? I'd >>>like to check if I have it turned OFF - but I don't know at the moment where I >>>can see that (I would have looked into the help docs, but I cannot search for >>>drive sharing because my version is german). >>>(...) >> >>DoubleClick the My_Computer Icon, RightClick drive C, Properties, sharing and >>you have done it. I think you are pretty safe if you restrict access with a >>password. > >Thanks. On my computer, sharing is not displayed at all in the drive properties. >So obviously these network options are not active with my type of internet >connection. Famous last words... That's right. The option shows up only when the Windows software is loaded (msclient) that enables networking of two or more computers.
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