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BouncingAyatollah

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New Explorer hole could be devastating
« on: 28 January 2004, 22:11 »
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Hehe, if you use Aaaaaiiieeeeeee 6 you can be spoofed to one site which the "browser" reports as another and then download a file of one type which the "browser" reports as another! LOL! Possibilities are endless...
The cheese would have to be subatomic size before quantum cheese effects would take over -- and then it wouldn't be identifiable as cheese any longer.

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New Explorer hole could be devastating
« Reply #1 on: 29 January 2004, 00:32 »
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The advice is to avoid this latest hole is always save files to a folder and then look at them.


haha  :D
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New Explorer hole could be devastating
« Reply #2 on: 29 January 2004, 06:53 »
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Originally posted by BouncingAyatollah:
Possibilities are endless...



Possibilities are indeed endless it seems with Microsoft software. In the future I can see there being a bug in IE that allows exploiters to write code that melts computers when the web page is opened via IE. Now that would be a cool bug.

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« Reply #3 on: 29 January 2004, 12:40 »
and one that wouldn't be fixed... that way you have to buy all that dma infected hardware

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New Explorer hole could be devastating
« Reply #4 on: 30 January 2004, 00:13 »
I want to see one where as soon as you get an email, your computer explodes and your refrigerator ceases operation.
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