That's the trouble with Micro$haft, they don't care. Do you think after successfully infecting almost all the world's computers with Winblos or the sort, they would care about auto-changing homepages with no user input? Not really. Micro$haft has one goal as I see it, money. Money is all that matters to them, customer satisfaction is second, a distant second. - Lakario ----- Original Message ----- From: [BD]Avatar-X Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 10:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Virus on the list ? Yes, I agree. One of the most annoying Javascript things is the fact that in Internet
Explorer, Javascript can be used to change your homepage, without asking you. What kind
of feature is that?? If I was the programmer who had implemented that at Microshaft, I
would have taken a few seconds more to code a question pop-up.
-av
Pat Magnan wrote:
> The author of the web based email package I use (neomail) patently
> refuses to add any time of HTML support whatsoever. Some view him as
> backwards for this view, but frankly I applaud his decision.
>
> Having the capability to read and parse arbitrary content in a mail
> package is exactly what has lead to this wave of email viruses. Do we
> really need a scripting engine so powerful that any program can do
> anything to the system, particularly when there is no particular (at
> least that I've ever worked out) system security.
>
> At least on Unix, most users are severly hampered from destroying
> anything particularly important (save their own data), even though
> there's more powerful scripting languages than WSH (in my opinion
> anyway).
>
> I still think most of these viruses depend on you opening the
> attachment (although that may not be the case for long, if JavaScript
> or ActiveX can be employed to help out a bit by a sufficiently clever
> virus author).
>
> > Is this something I need to open McAfee for or can it be avoided by
> not
> > opening any files? My e-mail client is gay and automatically views
> the
> > first new e-mail so if I can get this thing by just viewing the e-mail
> > I'm screwed already.
> >
> > On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 14:53:30 -0500 "[BD]Avatar-X"
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > lol... i got a file called docs.doc.pif
> > >
> > > But since i'm not stupid enough to use Outlook, i didn't even see
> > > the attachment.
> > > -av
> > >
> > > Leon Hartwig wrote:
> > >
> > > > Is this one of those 'one hand clapping' type of questions?
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Oskar 'Zoot' Lindgren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > > Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 8:14 AM
> > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > > Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Virus on the list ?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > why canīt i send to this list any longer?
> > > > >
> > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > From: Benjamin 'RirA' Rosenberger
> > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > > Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 5:06 PM
> > > > > Subject: [hlcoders] Virus on the list ?
> > > > >
> > > > > yes, there is a virus on this list! BUT THEY DID NOT SEND IT TO
> > > THE
> > > > > LIST, just to everyone single!
> > > > >
> > > > > SUCKER WHO DID THAT, just delete the mail you got, DO NOT OPEN!
> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > > ----------
> > > > > --
> > > > > Benjamin 'RirA' Rosenberger
> > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > > www.rossispage.de <http://www.rossispage.de>
> > > > > ICQ# 76679953
> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > > ----------
> > > > > --
> > > > >
> > > >
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