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To: drmorgan who wrote (14042)	11/11/1997 2:15:00 PM
From: drmorgan	Respond to of 24154

Microsoft, in its reply, lashes out at DOJ Microsoft Corp. is coming out swinging against the U.S. Department of Justice. This morning the Redmond, Wash., company posted on its Web site a 48-page formal reply to the DOJ's charges that it willfully violated its 1995 consent decree by forcing computer makers to license the Internet Explorer browser as a condition of licensing Windows 95. zdnet.com Derek

To: drmorgan who wrote (14042)	11/11/1997 2:21:00 PM
From: drmorgan	Respond to of 24154

IE4 bug can allow virus: 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 Derek