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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...
...security hole. It also allows you to start a program, but via different means. Instead of using shortcuts, it manipulates the frames feature of IE so that by double clicking on certain icons or graphics whole folders could be accessed on the host computer or the computer of the user. Net surfers would be able to copy, run or delete files...
...Baratunde R. Thurston '99 is the Claverly Hall User Assistant for HASCS, a member of the Harvard Computer Society and a Crimson editor...
...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...