[2591] in WWW Security List Archive
ActiveX security hole reported.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Trei)
Mon Aug 12 13:11:14 1996
From: "Peter Trei" <trei@process.com>
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 11:07:38 -6
Reply-to: trei@process.com
CC: trei@process.com
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
I have not confirmed this myself. It is forwarded from a mailing list.
-Peter
trei@process.com
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Date sent: Fri, 09 Aug 96 18:15:32
From: <jeremey@forequest.com>
Subject: Fun with M$
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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Some guy has written an ActiveX control which crashes windoze95... I don't
use windoze so can't try it, but if someone else is brave, I'd love to know
if it works...
Information page with a link to a page which loads the control:
http://www.halcyon.com/mclain/ActiveX/
Quote from the page:
Exploder is an Active X control which demonstrates security problems with
Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Exploder performs a clean shutdown of Win95
and will turn off the power on machines that have a power conservation BIOS
(green machines).
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Jeremey Barrett
Senior Software Engineer
jeremey@forequest.com
The ForeQuest Company
http://www.forequest.com/
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