Time: Sat Mar 08 23:05:15 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA05986 for [address in tool bar]; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 17:22:03 -0700 (MST) Delivered-To: liberty-and-justice-outgoing@majordomo.pobox.com Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 23:03:59 -0800 To: liberty-and-justice@pobox.com From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: Re: L&J: Bugs in Internet Explorer Buy Netscape stock! /s/ Paul Mitchell p.s. (wishing I had some:( At 03:07 PM 3/8/97 -0500, you wrote: >For those using IE: > > SEATTLE (AP) -- Two more flaws have been found in Microsoft's Internet >Explorer browser, just days after the company said it repaired a similar >problem. > A bug that was confirmed Friday, after being found by a University of >Maryland student, was similar to the first flaw, which Microsoft said it >had found a fix for Wednesday. > Both would allow a Web operator to get inside someone else's computer >and run programs, send electronic mail, severely damage software or wipe >out a hard drive altogether. > A third bug, described as a variation of the flaw that was fixed >earlier this week, was found Friday by students at the Massachusetts >Institute of Technology. > David Fester, prodct manager at Microsoft Corp.'s headquarters in >Redmond, said software to repair the flaws would be available on >Microsoft's Internet site this weekend. > "Scary, isn't it?" said Dan Kusnetzky, director of the client server >environments program at International Data Corp. in Framingham, Mass. > No customers have reported security breaches from the flaws, Fester >said. > The second bug would allow a malicious operator to put an >innocuous-looking icon or graphic on a web page that, if double-clicked, >would activate a damaging program or virus capable of bypassing security >measures and secretly entering a user's computer . > Once inside, the program would be free to do whatever the operator >wanted. > "For somebody to do this is very difficult," Fester said. "At the same >time, I don't mean to minimize this in any way. We're moving very rapidly >to fix that." > The software patch Microsoft developed to fix the first problem won't >fix the second bug, but a new patch should be available for free downloads >on the World Wide Web within 48 hours, Fester said. > ------ > Microsoft's site on the World Wide Web with information on the security >flaws is: http://www.microsoft.com/ie/security/update.htm > > > > > > >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >Unsub info - send e-mail to majordomo@majordomo.pobox.com, with >"unsubscribe liberty-and-justice" in the body (not the subject) >Liberty-and-Justice list-owner is Mike Goldman <whig@pobox.com> > > ======================================================================== Paul Andrew, Mitchell, B.A., M.S. : Counselor at Law, federal witness email: [address in tool bar] : Eudora Pro 3.0.1 on Intel 586 CPU web site: http://www.supremelaw.com : library & law school registration ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this ======================================================================== =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Unsub info - send e-mail to majordomo@majordomo.pobox.com, with "unsubscribe liberty-and-justice" in the body (not the subject) Liberty-and-Justice list-owner is Mike Goldman <whig@pobox.com>
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