full-disclosure - Re: 70 million computers are using Windows 98 right now

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Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 10:15:59 +0200
From: Tonnerre Lombard <tonnerre.lombard@...roup.ch>
To: micheal.espinola@...il.com
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: 70 million computers are using Windows 98
	right now

Salut,

On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 15:00 -0400, Micheal Espinola Jr wrote:
> Windows NT Workstation was in fact identical to Server - except with
> intentional limiters placed within the registry to prevent admins from
> avoiding purchasing the "full" server product.  However, you could
> hack it and make it a "Server".

In fact, this of course also worked the other way around. Also, there
was a bug in MSIE ASN1 parsing once which could be exploited to write
random registry keys with the user's privileges. So what we did was
this: we had a link on our internal archive web server which read "Don't
click here". Now if some stupid NT admin surfed as a user with
Domain-Admin privileges and clicked on the link, the NT domain server
would believe to be a workstation on the next boot. This happened from
time to time and caused a lot of amusement along us UNIX admins.

				Tonnerre
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