Re: techport80
- Posted by jbrown105 at speedymail.org Sep 19, 2002
- 517 views
On 0, Kat <kat at kogeijin.com> wrote: > > Thanks for posting the article on Java security. Very informative. I > > would like to point out a new key points about that article and that web > > page though. Also I agree with you in the fact that newer isn't always > > better. Further, I would like to state that JavaScript is used > > sparingly on my website and that you can read anything on my site should > > you choose to turn JavaScript off. > > Strangely, turning it off, *if you can*, doesn't prevent your puter from going > > out to download the latest addons to the scripting languages, as i found out > the hard way a few months ago. They are downloaded, even if you had > checked Do Not Run, in case you might want to run them later. The badly > botched auto-install deleted/corrupted needed files for IE and Explorer. I am > still missing the proper icon for IE, but that's no problem. > Ah, the joys of Linux and Opera> > JavaScript is safe. There is very little you can do with > > JavaScript, as a standalone tool, that is not what it was intended to > > do. When combined with other tools, JavaScript poses a little more of a > > risk, but that risk is minimal. > > I lost a computer to javascript. The bios was written to, and was not > recoverable or replaceable. The harddrive was corrupted, and i lost a lot of > material. Javascript is used for redirects, windows that can't be closed, etc > etc. > Its hard to believe thats possible. I dont see how javascript can corrupt a filesystem, or overwrite a BIOS!! What browser and what version and which site was this? --