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Fun little IE exploit.

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CommonSense:
Check this one out.

http://www.liquidwd.freeserve.co.uk/

It opens a new command prompt window.  I don't know if this is old news or what, and I was too lazy to go upstairs to the one token Windows box to see it work (I'm an OS X user, after all).  Looks like there's great potential for trouble with a little creative tweaking of the source of this page . . .

voidmain:
Yes, I was aware of that one for a month or two now, and apparently it's been a problem for a very long time, but just recently made public.  Yep, wouldn't take much to wipe out a hard drive just by browsing to the wrong site...

Bateluer:
Lucky I don't use IE unless I am forced to  

edit - It does not open the cmd.exe in Opera 6.01  :D

[ March 05, 2002: Message edited by: Bateleur ]

voidmain:
Holy Shit!  I clicked that link on my RedHat box and it fired up a copy of VMware running Windows 2000, then opened up a command prompt.  After it did that it opened up kdevelop and finished that KDE application for me that I've been working on.

Bateluer:
lol!

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