[A83] Re: [O/T] Open source graphlinks

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Subject: [A83] Re: [O/T] Open source graphlinks
From: "Henk Poley" <hpoley@dds.nl>
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 11:47:52 +0200
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> Van: Dan Weiss <dwedit@hotmail.com>
> 
> Using paths made of dos device names like C:\con\con or C:\nul\nul causes
> a blue screen of death on a default installation of windows 98SE and
> below, watch out for message board trolls who make nice <img
> src=''C:\con\con''> images.

That's sooo fun... :-( Another but more lethal feachure in IE, aka
Win98[SE] (without 98Lite), is this funny capability that people can write
to your FAT[32] partitions from the internet. Once saw a page (..didn't try
it though..) on xcalc.org that would remove some vital files and recommend
you (via the autoexec.bat) to "Upgrade to Linux".

> Running Windows Update fixes the problem.

Ever seen that work? I must manualy grab the patches from the
"administrators" page. Not that there are many vulnerabilties left when you
remove IE...

Just a shame that I needed to install it again or else the banking software
wouldn't run. And nope, that's not because it needs the HTML-engine.

	Henk Poley <><

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