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Re: YIKES user.exe stupidity.


> Some nice netizen downloaded user.exe and managed to overlay his
> system32/user.exe with it.  See the recent user archives for details.

Yowza!  We should have thought of that earlier.  Imaging how many more
Linux machines there'd be ;-)

> Here's the obvious suggestion, rename user.exe to usertools.exe without delay.

Done!  At least, when the ftp mirrors update themselves.

I added a user.exe.README that explains what happened.
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