[ILUG] [OT] IE5 will run programs locally

From: Donncha O Caoimh (donncha.ocaoimh at domain tradesignals.com)
Date: Thu 26 Aug 1999 - 11:16:52 IST

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This is quite a bit off-topic but serious nevertheless.
A post to bugtraq reported that IE5 users could have files written to
their harddrive by an ActiveX component on any web page. I tried it here
with a few machines and it works flawlessly. A benign "Linux is loading"
message written to autoexec.bat from a webpage somewhere would be funny
though..

Donncha.

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