From: SMTP%"jeremey@forequest.com" 10-AUG-1996 21:24:55.69 To: EVERHART CC: Subj: BoS: Fun with M$ Resent-Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 08:59:06 +1000 Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 13:48:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeremey Barrett To: cypherpunks@toad.com Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: proff@suburbia.net Resent-Message-ID: <"vWV1A2.0.-o5.vAy2o"@suburbia> Resent-From: best-of-security@suburbia.net X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/199 X-Loop: best-of-security@suburbia.net Precedence: list Resent-Sender: best-of-security-request@suburbia.net Subject: BoS: Fun with M$ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Some guy has written an ActiveX control which crashes windoze95... I don't use windoze so can't try it, but if someone else is brave, I'd love to know if it works... Information page with a link to a page which loads the control: http://www.halcyon.com/mclain/ActiveX/ Quote from the page: Exploder is an Active X control which demonstrates security problems with Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Exploder performs a clean shutdown of Win95 and will turn off the power on machines that have a power conservation BIOS (green machines). - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Jeremey Barrett Senior Software Engineer jeremey@forequest.com The ForeQuest Company http://www.forequest.com/ "less is more." -- Mies van de Rohe. Ken Thompson has an automobile which he helped design. Unlike most automobiles, it has neither speedometer, nor gas gage, nor any of the numerous idiot lights which plague the modern driver. Rather, if the driver makes any mistake, a giant "?" lights up in the center of the dashboard. "The experienced driver", he says, "will usually know what's wrong." -- 'fortune` output -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMgujTi/fy+vkqMxNAQFikwP+LbLwibqKcp4FcLncenF44ptcp01j02M8 QwVbx0R+ept5jFea+R5Jhbypy+C2wvLh1hs4fjC0d2lrAQkfqiJxDAu8dblXYejy hS1hmuzflIEcat2p0qbomKDf+Iba2fz2kXtcu5CSsmwvqWwZf9XSFiC0Gx9JJ0Nh c/zVv9GcMIs= =1j1L -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----