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To: John Cuthbertson who wrote (13507)	8/10/1998 6:55:00 AM
From: Jon Koplik	Read Replies (1) of 152472

To all - text of another article about Qualcomm's Eudora fix August 10, 1998 Qualcomm Has Fixed Flaw In Popular E-Mail Product By a WALL STREET JOURNAL Staff Reporter SAN DIEGO -- Qualcomm Corp. has fixed a flaw in its popular Eudora e-mail software that allowed an e-mail message to contain a hidden, possibly malicious, computer program. The company posted a new version of its software over the weekend on its Internet site, days after the security lapse was first detected. The flaw allows someone to write a small program in the Java or Javascript languages that would accompany a Eudora e-mail message and disguise a second program as the address of a Web site inside the body of the message. By clicking on an apparent Web address, the recipient would launch the second program, which could then do whatever its creator wanted it to, including erase files. The flaw affects the estimated 10 million users of the commercial Eudora programs for Windows from version Eudora Pro 4.0 onward. Neither the free version nor the Macintosh version were affected. Company officials said they didn't know of a case in which the hidden program had been used.

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