[Gathnet] Windows Explorer security bug affects Firefox
Stuart D. Gathman
stuart at gathman.org
Fri Jul 9 08:51:17 EDT 2004
This was supposed to have been fixed in XP service pack 1, but wasn't.
Please upgrade Firefox to work around this, or else clicking on links
beginning with "shell:" will execute arbitrary programs.
http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/08/2327246&tid=78&tid=82
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Stuart D. Gathman <stuart at bmsi.com>
Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154
"Confutatis maledictis, flamis acribus addictis" - background song for
a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial.
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