[LINK] Excitable Nanny & Scumware

[Malcolm Miles]

On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 13:18:12 +1000, you wrote:

>On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 10:48:34AM +1000, Rick Welykochy wrote:
>> Interesting. Once again, only MS/IE running on Windows can be infected
>> with scumware. I wonder which straw will break the back of the hapless
>> Windows user?

>one of the reasons why MS products are such security nightmares is that
>they don't have to fix them. most people will use their software anyway,
>no matter how bad it is.

I am not sure where you see the security hole in IE here. The user has downloaded and installed some music-sharing software that also hooks into IE as some sort of plug-in. Presumably it sits in the background monitoring received HTML code and adding its own little touches on the way through. No reason why a similar thing couldn't be written to work with Netscape or any other browser. 

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Best wishes,
Malcolm