OpenEuphoria

Re: DOS undocumented feature

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <jluethje at gmx.de> Jul 27, 2002
• 457 views

Martin <martin.stachon at worldonline.cz> wrote:

> Juergen Luethje wrote:
>> In contrast to the dynamic techniques that you describe, the information
>> in the INDEX.DAT files is stored on my hard disk. Therefore web companies
>> can read from there, what websites I have visited a week ago or so, is this
>> right?

> Not directly.

Is the information in the INDEX.DAT files not stored for such a long
time, or what do you mean? Would you think that it doesn't make sense
to delete the INDEX.DAT files for the sake of privacy?

> However MSIE has lots of bugs, and some of them allow reading
> any local files, executing code etc. Just try this:

>     <img src="file:///C|/con/con">

What exactly shall I try? This is a HTML tag, isn't it? I saved your
post as HTML file. I have MSIE 5.50 + SP1. When I open this HTML file
with it, I can't detect anything special. It just shows a square with
a red cross inside, instead of <img src="file:///C|/con/con">.

> I have MSIE 5.5 + SP1 + SP2 + all patches Microsoft released and I still
> cant get rid off the Blue Screen of Death...

>     Martin

Of course, those Blue Screens are very annoying. But are they related
to any lack of privacy?

Regards,
   Juergen