[thelist] gopher burrows under IE

aardvark roselli at earthlink.net
Wed Jun 5 11:09:01 CDT 2002


http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/020604/microsoft_security_flaw_1.html

[...]
A security flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser could allow
a hacker to take control of a remote computer if its user clicks a
link to an outdated Internet protocol, a computer security firm says.
[...]
The problem concerns Gopher, an Internet protocol that predates
the World Wide Web with pages like Web pages except that they
are unable to store audio and video content.
[...]


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