Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 22:42:04 -0800
Reply-To: Tromper <tromper@COMCAST.NET>
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From: Tromper <tromper@COMCAST.NET>
Subject: Re: heads up on IE browser flaw
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That's why I use Opera 'bout 98% of the time. For those who don't
believe this I suggest. http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1071194883.html
I've checked out some of the false emails coming to various customers
and they are exploiting that pup to the hilt. Even if you're surfing in
you Vanagon (obligatory content) Msoft hasn't acknowledged it
yet. I haven't checked it with the MSN explorer. If someone out there
uses that, I'd love to know if that hole is patched in it, but please
reply off list for that.
Tromper
82 Dieselfant II
Comcast Tech.
-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
Of gary hradek
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 10:05 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: heads up on IE browser flaw
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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