Author: Jerry Jones
Date: 04:15:45 04/28/02
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On April 27, 2002 at 12:20:35, Torstein Hall wrote: >On April 27, 2002 at 10:32:09, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>On April 27, 2002 at 10:30:23, Roy Eassa wrote: >> >>>On April 27, 2002 at 04:36:56, Jerry Jones wrote: >>> >>>>I use Dedicated System 2002, so I have no network enabled. >>> >>> >>>What is that? Google turns up nothing. >>> >>> >>>>Does Hiarcs 8 work on Windows without Mpr.dll or does it need this file ? >>> >>> >>>What is Mpr.dll? Why is it bad? >> >> >>Did a search on mpr.dll and found this: >> >>http://www.diamondcs.com.au/web/patches/enhancer.php3?patch=passlock >> >>Which includes this paragraph: >> >>Microsoft Windows installs with a file called MPR.DLL (MPR standing for Multiple >>Provider Route). While the functions of this DLL are generally very useful, >>there is one exported function that is not required and is of particular concern >>to the security-conscious. Existing only in Windows95/98/ME versions of mpr.dll >>(it was removed from Windows NT/2K for good reason), the name of this exported >>function is WNetEnumCachedPasswords. It is officially undocumented, but enough >>unofficial documentation has been created so that trojan authors can easily call >>this DLL from their own trojan - indeed, many popular trojans such as Sub7 have >>taken advantage of this API for a long time, and even the safe passdump.exe demo >>program that accompanies this patch uses this unofficial documentation to call >>the function. > >You should have sufficent and updated anti virus anyway. If so I can nto see >that it matters that much...... > >To me it looks like Jerry Jones are using some kind of Linux with Windows >emulation that can not run mpr.dll > >Torstein Win32 emulation Dedicated System
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