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Security of Internet Explorer
By Ron Yost

Hi all! If you're using Microsoft Internet Explorer on Windows 95 or Windows NT you should be aware that the released versions contain *serious* security bugs. Note that these do not affect "IE" on either Windows 3.1 systems nor the Macintosh versions, only Win95 and NT, because of the tight linking of "IE" with these operating systems.

These bugs make it possible for deviant web page authors to do nasty things to your hard drive! They enable web site operators to swipe files from your hard drive and even delete files and folders.

No Kidding -- this is NOT a joke! Microsoft has released patches for the three known bugs, but there may be more. For the latest information and down-loadable patches for your system see:

  http://www.microsoft.com/security/update.htm

There are also reported problems with Microsoft's "Active-X" technology, which are not clearly known at present. My advice is to stay away from Internet Explorer and Active-X for a while, at least until all the problems have been uncovered. Please be careful!

Ron Yost, Paso Robles, CA

(Message sent Tue 11 Mar 1997, 18:21:03 GMT, from time zone GMT-0800.)

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