| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 5 Apr 2001 at 12:06:44 |
| Subject: | Re: Is muimaster020 safe? |
Matt Sealey said,
>> Does anyone have any firm information as to whether this patch is safe
>> or not? I'm concerned because it's on AACD20 and I'd like to put a
>> warning in the magazine if there is a risk.
> Of course it isn't safe. Whether it contains a trojan or not, you'd be stupid
> to run something which changes core components like that which aren't
> sanctioned by the original author.
I don't care whether it makes the machine unstable or not, that's up to
the user to determine on their setup. If it crashes, they can simply
replace the original version. What I'm concerned about is the likelihood
that it will do damage that isn't obvious.
Programs like Birdie, VisualPrefs and MCP also patch core functions, far
more core than MUI. They may work or they may not, but I'm happy to
include them on the CD because I don't believe they'll do anything
malicious.
> MUI is fast enough as it is, using 68020 instructions rather than a bunch
> of 68000 ones happens so rarely in the code that a 68020 compile would
> not make that much of a difference. And it doesn't, really it doesn't.
I tend to agree, which is why I didn't bother with it myself. If there
had been any great benefit, Stuntz would have compiled for 020+ long
ago. But that's not the point.
Neil
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