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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: BouncingAyatollah on 28 January 2004, 22:11

Title: New Explorer hole could be devastating
Post by: BouncingAyatollah on 28 January 2004, 22:11

InfoWorld (http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/01/28/HNiehole_1.html)

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...

Title: New Explorer hole could be devastating
Post by: WMD 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.

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haha  :D

Title: New Explorer hole could be devastating
Post by: Xeen on 29 January 2004, 06:53

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Originally posted by BouncingAyatollah:
Possibilities are endless...

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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.

Title: New Explorer hole could be devastating
Post by: Stryker on 29 January 2004, 12:40

and one that wouldn't be fixed... that way you have to buy all that dma infected hardware

Title: New Explorer hole could be devastating
Post by: Heywood 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.