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Date:         Sun, 18 Jan 2004 22:05:28 -0800
Reply-To:     gary hradek <hradek@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         gary hradek <hradek@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      heads up on  IE browser flaw
Comments: cc: taring@TARING.ORG
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Tom, It was the Mozilla broswer that I was using with the linux system that showed that the same address to citibank.com for IE was being directed to some website in russia but you could not see that with the windows IE combination. Same problem occurred with an ebay link. What happens is that certain characters in the web url are not able to be displayed by IE and any characters after that are not displayed but the directions are still read by the broswer. Until microsoft fixes the problem we all need to be careful unless we use an alternative. Mistrust all links requesting confidential information. If there is a hole in microsoft browser I am guessing that any broswer could have a problem. It just takes a hacker to figure it out. regards gary Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 22:05:54 -0600 From: tom ring <taring@TARING.ORG> Subject: Re: heads up on IE browser flaw

Mistrust Microsoft products. They are the core of the problem. And there are lots of alternatives that are free, and better, and faster, and lots smaller.

I make the offer again. Anyone that would like help installing a non-Microsoft browser, i.e. Mozilla, Opera, etc., or a non-Microsoft mail client, i.e. Pegasus, Eudora, etc., please contact me.

tom

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