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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

There was a TCP/IP bug that shared it's exploit on versions of windows from windows for workgroups 3.11 (which you ran from the DOS prompt by typing 'win') through to windows 7 (which was the new hotness at the time)

That's a bug conserved from the very first Microsoft implementation of TCP/IP through to the state of the art at the time

People were surprised at the time that it wasn't a windows NT bug

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    That's surprising, as I think the first Windows TCP/IP stack was ported over from BSD by Spider Systems (pretty sure that's why it still has things like "/etc/hosts" - albeit under System32). Wonder if the bug was in BSD and never backported (cross ported?).

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