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echo: virus_info
to: PAUL WALKER
from: GORDON FREY
date: 1997-04-29 08:51:00
subject: Linux and viruses...

On (25 Apr 97) Paul Walker wrote to Denis Moreaux...
 PW> Hi Denis,
 PW> Denis Moreaux to Rick Collins, 20 Apr 97 13:08.
 DM> OK... "What does the browser... and are there risk of trojanized HTML
 DM> pages ?"
 PW> If you're running a version of IE3.0 without the patch, yes, due to
 PW> the security "feature" in it.
Unluckily java script does have some secrurity holes in it and a 
expert can write a aptlet that can do nasie stuff to your hard 
drive, it the version of java has not been upgraded.
Gordon
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