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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
>   
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