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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first bug was discovered by students at Worcester Polytechnic right here in Massachusetts. It allows a web page designer to include regular shortcuts (files that end in '.LNK') and Internet shortcuts (files that end in '.URL') on a page that could start programs on a user's computer if clicked. Because of the common location of many of the files on Windows-based PCs, it would not be difficult to create a link, for example, that would start the calculator program on your computer. While this is an innocent example, it could be very destructive if another program was started...
...Doom" makes you shiver and run for cover, never fear. Just as Wesley Snipes showed his softer side in "To Wong Foo," game manufacturers have increasingly cultivated user-friendly products...
Although the Performa 636 is not one of the models in question, one Pforzheimer user complained that hers crashes when she uses Netscape...
...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's security systems and automatically access programs, from e-mail to files and basic functions, that reside on the user's hard drive. All the site's designer would need to know is the location and code of a program on the drive. Such locations, unfortunately, are commonly standardized with operating systems' installation, and thus easily deduced. The bug could be a dose of publicity poison for Microsoft, by focusing computer users' fears...
...fully protected by free speech. The unsolicited "broadcasting" of bigoted emails which Mr. Tucker generalizes to stand for all forms of e-mail is separate and fully distinct matter. Even Internet sites which "distribute racist vitriol" are protected under free speech laws, because unlike unsolicited e-mail, the user must take a deliberate action to receive them...