Ray Cromwell writes:
I've found a Netscape bug which I suspect is a buffer overflow and may have the potential for serious damage. If it is an overflow bug, then it may be possible to infect every computer which accesses a web page with Netscape. To see the bug, create an html file containing the following:
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