Microsoft Security Bulletin (MS00-079) - Microsoft has released a patch that eliminates the "HyperTerminal Buffer Overflow" which allows malicious users to execute arbitrary code on another users system by sending a long telnet:// URL in a HTML mail message. HyperTerminal is the default Telnet client on Windows 98, 98SE and ME, but not Windows 2000. Updated hyperterminal available here.
Microsoft Security Bulletin (MS00-079) - Microsoft has released a patch that eliminates the "HyperTerminal Buffer Overflow" which allows malicious users to execute arbitrary code on another users system by sending a long telnet:// URL in a HTML mail message. HyperTerminal is the default Telnet client on Windows 98, 98SE and ME, but not Windows 2000. Updated hyperterminal available here.