Benjamin Scott wrote:
> Quoted from today's issue of NewsScan (http://www.newsscan.com):
>
> > SECURITY HOLE IN NETSCAPE
> >
> > Because of a security hole in the Netscape browser, about a thousand
> > computers have been infected in a way that would allow a network vandal to
> > see, run, and delete files on the victim's computer. Netscape is working
> > rapidly to solve the problem, but network security experts are suggesting
> > that, until the solution is found, Netscape users should disable the Java
> > programming languages in their browsers.
I think they might be a little confused - to my knowledge it only allows
read access, not write/exec. Though with arbitrary read access to one's
machine, write/exec access becomes a natural progression. ;)
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