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To: John Covalesky who wrote (6094)	11/10/1997 10:27:00 AM
From: phbolton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

CNet plans to carry Steve Jobs' address today via RealAudio. Details at news.com

To: John Covalesky who wrote (6094)	11/10/1997 10:40:00 AM
From: Chi-X	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

"If you had any clue about how browsers or cookies worked, you would know how inanely stupid that comment was." John, didn't you know about the Netscape bug that allowed a person to retrieve a file from your hard drive? This was discovered several months ago and corrected. The person that wrote the pirate site would have to know the file they're trying to retrieve beforehand though. Then there was a similar problem with Active X on the Internet Explorer browsers. Who knows what bugs that they haven't fixed yet. Cherio, Chi-X hath Spoken! "There shall be no wine, before its time."

To: John Covalesky who wrote (6094)	11/11/1997 2:44:00 PM
From: Chi-X	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

John, still convinced that browsers are perfectly safe? Microsoft (MSFT) plans to post a fix in the next 24 hours for an Internet Explorer 4.0 bug that could turn a hyperlink into a hornet's nest. The company today confirmed the existence of what it is calling the buffer-overrun security bug. The bug allows a malicious Web site author to take advantage of IE 4.0's limited capacity for Web addresses of the "res://" type. Here's how it works: IE 4.0 can only read a hyperlink address of up to 256 characters. Anything longer than that crashes the browser and causes the remaining characters of the address to go into the computer's memory. A malicious Web site author can spawn a virus simply by writing code from the 257th character of the res:// address. news.com