Greetings,
This is probably known, or at least suspected, by some, but in case
anyone here is running a version of Netscape below the latest (or
nearly latest (?), 4.76, IIRC) on their UNIX systems (esp. older
systems that may not be able to run the newest version), you may want
to create a sepearate login and just su to that in another window to
run Nutscrape, if you run it at all. Versions prior to 4.76, when
visiting web sites containing malicious code, can be made to execute
arbitrary commands on one's system.
Not sure if this applies to systems other than UNIX as well, but in
any case, I think this is yet more proof of the usefulness of external
modems that have at least transmit and receive lights on them. On
several occasions, I've noticed them blinking when they shouldn't have
been when I was using Netscape, and quickly turned the modem off.
--
Copyright (C) 2000 R. D. Davis "The best way to gain a true understanding of
All Rights Reserved Wile E. Coyote on the Roadrunner cartoons is to
rdd_at_perqlogic.com 410-744-4900 fly, head-first, off a horse into something like
http://www.perqlogic.com/rdd a fence or a tree; trust me, this works." --RDD
Received on Thu Nov 16 2000 - 09:35:00 GMT