--- begin forwarded text Resent-Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 12:06:00 -0500 From: glen@substance.abuse.blackdown.org To: 0xdeadbeef@substance.abuse.blackdown.org Cc: bostic@bsdi.com Subject: New IE4 security hole discovered. Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 12:05:56 -0500 Sender: glen@shell.ncm.com Resent-From: 0xdeadbeef@substance.abuse.blackdown.org X-Mailing-List: <0xdeadbeef@substance.abuse.blackdown.org> archive/latest/2447 X-Loop: 0xdeadbeef@substance.abuse.blackdown.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: 0xdeadbeef-request@substance.abuse.blackdown.org what were the opcodes to hang a pentium again? -glen Forwarded-by: "Per Hammer" <phammer@raleigh.ibm.com> http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/8429.html A new security vulnerability uncovered in Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 will allegedly allow a malicious individual to write a line of HTML on a Web page that will execute native code on a user's machine. Such code could run, create, or delete a file - or do anything a user can do from sitting in front of his machine. Uhm ... "Whops" ? Not that we needed an excuse not to run IE4 anyway, but hopefully this will further deter the "large corporations", who according to Microsoft wants to "run IE4 on all platforms" ... --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com), Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/ Ask me about FC98 in Anguilla!: <http://www.fc98.ai/>