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Friday, March 29 2024

Viewing HTML in IE runs code ??!?

Hackers

A recently disclosed vulnerability for Windows IE has some serious/amusing (would that be seriously amusing?) consequences.

The vulnerability allows anyone to insert a few lines of HTML that launch any program on the viewing computer. Although this can only launch applications that are already present, the consequences are still very serious.

I must admit though, it's pretty funny when viewing a web page launches the windows calculator. For a demonstration of this, Read More... (currently for NT/2K/XP only)

The object below should launch calculator for Windows NT/2000/XP.

pretty cool, huh?

posted by Loki on Wed, 06 Mar 2002 14:25:23 -0600