Word: browser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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College students discovered that Microsoft's web browser has security holes. The bugs affect the Internet Explorer (IE) versions 2.0 and later for Windows 95 and NT 4.0. They also affect users of America Online's browser, which is really just the Internet Explorer...
SEATTLE: Careful where you click. A security flaw has been discovered in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser that could allow a Web site to log onto you. The software bug, discovered last week by Paul Greene, a student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, allows a Web page designer to turn hyperlinks into a direct pathway to the computer of any person who uses them. Greene posted information about the problem on his web site Monday. By utilizing an operating system's "shortcuts," used to access and start programs stored on the hard drive, nefariously designed links could bypass the browser...
...many users, like Upadhyay, stick with the browser provided by AOL because it has advantages like compressed graphics...
...catch is, when you're surfing the Web on bigger.net, there will be a window filled with advertising next to the browser itself. Close the ad window, and you're disconnected. Juno users also receive ads from sponsors in their e-mail inboxes every morning...
...appears that Internet ads will be just as easy for Juno and bigger.net subscribers to turn off as well. Ads e-mailed to your account? Delete them. Ads built into the Web browser? Ignore them and surf...