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Re: LYNX-DEV warning: applets flying about
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Alan Cox |
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Re: LYNX-DEV warning: applets flying about |
Date: |
Fri, 21 Feb 1997 08:41:32 +0000 (GMT) |
> of threat. By using its default security level
> (High) that comes pre-set, Internet Explorer 3.0
> will not download and run any "unsigned" control
> such as the one from the CCC.
Tricking people into signing applets is know to be
trivial. Everyone got a copy of Microsoft exploder
the activeX applet that shuts down your windows box ?
> Microsoft takes the threat of malicious code very
> seriously. It is a problem that affects everyone
As someone who has to try and dig fixes out of MS
sites where they put them undocumented and unannounced
for their NT customers I can't believe I just heard that
I'm not however 100% convinced Lynx is totally secure. It
only takes on abusable subtle buffer overrun for someone
to get unwelcome code running in a browser. Javascript and
friends don't make things safer that is for sure, but the
lack of them doesn't make it impossible.
Alan
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- LYNX-DEV warning: applets flying about, Philip Webb, 1997/02/20
- Re: LYNX-DEV warning: applets flying about, Larry W. Virden, x2487, 1997/02/20
- Re: LYNX-DEV warning: applets flying about, Michael Ritzert, 1997/02/21
- Re: LYNX-DEV warning: applets flying about,
Alan Cox <=
- Re: LYNX-DEV warning: applets flying about[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D, Larry W. Virden, x2487, 1997/02/21
- LYNX-DEV Java & Javascript, Barry Rountree, 1997/02/21
- Re: LYNX-DEV warning: applets flying about[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D, Alan Cox, 1997/02/21
- Some issues (was:Re: LYNX-DEV warning: applets flying about), Michael Ritzert, 1997/02/24
- Re: Some issues (was:Re: LYNX-DEV warning: applets flying about), Larry W. Virden, x2487, 1997/02/24
- Re: Some issues (was:Re: LYNX-DEV warning: applets flying about), Michael Ritzert, 1997/02/24
- Re: Some issues (was:Re: LYNX-DEV warning: applets flying about), Tom Zerucha, 1997/02/24