Gameguru Mania

ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 45802

Mozilla Flaw Lets Links Run Arbitrary Programs - The reports indicate that links in a Web page using the "shell:" scheme can execute arbitrary programs on the user's system. The attacker would have to know the location in the file system of the program, but there are known pro

Read more...

Source: GGMania headlines
GGMania.com - Daily Gaming and Tech news

FISKER_Q · Contributor Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Posts: 2

Just sucks that there's no other popular browser(that i know of) that supports that shell problem Laughing

Btw that dell report is a spoof not a real report Wink

xxxx · Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 6:44 am Post subject:

no browser is safe. anyone can break anything, at least with ms you are almost assured that if they are found they are fixed asap.

DELETED · Guest

DELETED

El_Coyote · Elite Member Joined: 09 Jun 2004 Posts: 611

too bad mozilla is faster.
there were a fix for firefox a few minutes after the previous security flaw was published (the frame target bug)
Opera is better than both however Razz

maga · Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 3:38 pm Post subject:

lucas · Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 4:11 pm Post subject:

the mozilla "bug" is a windows problem. it doesnt affect mozilla on linux. the problem is mozilla handing off protocols it doesnt do (ie. shell:) to the system. on well written operating systems this isnt a problem, but on windows is it. ms promised to fix the shell hole long ago, apparent it'll be fixed in sp2

BI4dE · Guest

5th paragraph would tule but shame that its just a joke Sad

madda · Elite Member Joined: 09 Jun 2004 Posts: 309 Location: UK

xxxx · Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 9:40 pm Post subject:

har, as i had time to read the real story, BAD joke. i thus changed my response. i welcome all computer manufacturers to drop windows installation on their pc's. give people the ultimate choice, go to the store and voluntarily buy it or pay a surplus to have dell etc put it on your box. this alone would give linux etc more fighting chance and would also see the eventual end of the linux vs ms debate. dell, is crap anyhow so who cares. alienware gets my vote for best/quality pc's out there. dell is custom motherboards and odd parts.. SDRAM in a +2GHz machine... uh huh..alienware is proven and award winning parts. get what you pay for. i had to give the bad news to my cousin who bought a hunk of junk dell.