Re: crashes

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On 3 Jul 2000, at 15:18, No Solution wrote:

> Kat said:
> >A while back people asked about javascript taking control of your puter,
> >this url came
> >up on another listserv:
> >
> >www.crashme.com
> >
> >Without all patches to protect from this sort of thing, it will cause you
> >to need to shut
> >off the puter to regain control.
> >
> >Kat
>
> c'mon.. you're asking for it if you willingly go to that site.

I didn't go, i'm not even curious, but with my filtering in place, it wouldn't
hurt me
anyways. Besides, you can run Opera without the javascript or java or activex
plugins,
and be pretty immune to these tricks.

Kat

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