Comments on: New hole in Windows discovered 17 years after it appeared http://www.askwoody.com/2010/hole-windows-discovered-17-years-appeared/ Woody Leonhard’s no-bull news, tips and help for Windows and Office Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:44:19 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: FTWMike http://www.askwoody.com/2010/hole-windows-discovered-17-years-appeared/comment-page-1/#comment-1834 FTWMike Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:35:34 +0000 http://www.askwoody.com/?p=3491#comment-1834 The Microsoft workaround until a patch is created is to disable the NTVDM subsystem. 1. Is there a way to determine if any particular machine has any applications that would be negatively impacted by doing that disablement? 2. If a 16-bit application had launched on a machine in the past that used the NTVDM would it have cut an event log record of some sort that could be seen in the event viewer? Thanks! The Microsoft workaround until a patch is created is to disable the NTVDM subsystem.
1. Is there a way to determine if any particular machine has any applications that would be negatively impacted by doing that disablement?
2. If a 16-bit application had launched on a machine in the past that used the NTVDM would it have cut an event log record of some sort that could be seen in the event viewer?

Thanks!

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