[2604] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: ActiveX security hole reported.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Cobb)
Tue Aug 13 19:56:55 1996
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 17:57:52 -0400
To: trei@process.com
From: Stephen Cobb <stephen@iu.net>
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
>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...
>
Yes, it works, turns off the machine...quite impressive.
Stephen Cobb, CISSP