[4129] in bugtraq
Re: Internet Explorer Bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Wed Mar 5 18:33:56 1997
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 19:44:05 +0000
Reply-To: Alan Cox <alan@LXORGUK.UKUU.ORG.UK>
From: Alan Cox <alan@LXORGUK.UKUU.ORG.UK>
X-To: jpp@CYBERSOURCE.COM
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970303131239.006d3ca8@127.0.0.1> from "John Pettitt" at
Mar 3, 97 01:13:09 pm
> Well that must qualify for brain dead hole of the week, here is a quick fix.
>
> Rename the registry entry
> "My Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\InternetShortcut\shell\open\command"
> to "old.command"
>
> Do the same for
>
> My Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\CLSID
> (change to CLSID.old)
>
>
> This will case .url files to be treated as .txt files and .lnk files to pop
> the open/save dialog.
It doesnt work, this whole thing goes back to the start of December or
earlier - the reload trick works for .reg files so you can update the victims
registry with the bug too
Alan
