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Security and Internet Explorer
By Larry Smith

> Another bug in Explorer
> By Alex Lash and Nick Wingfield
> May 8, 1997, 11:45 a.m. PT
> 
> Microsoft's (MSFT) respite from the wave of security bugs that hit
> Internet Explorer in March is over.
>
> The latest security bug affects users of Internet Explorer 3.x. Also
> affected are users of the platform preview release of Explorer 4.0 who
> also have PowerPoint, Microsoft's presentation software, loaded onto
> their computers. The glitch could allow a malicious Web site to execute
> any program on a user's computer without permission, including deleting
> files and uploading private information.

The full text of the article can be found at:

  http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,10487,00.html

regards,
Larry Smith

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(Message sent Fri 9 May 1997, 15:26:20 GMT, from time zone GMT-0400.)

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