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Unscrupulous websites installing apps
From: "Jeff Miller" <jrm.wa () verizon net>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:50:43 -0700
I have a user who *somehow* got caught in one of those websites with cascading window traps that opened up a bunch of new browser windows for him. One of those windows was a prompt to install a program with the choices YES and NO. He clicked the x in the corner instead, only to find that somehow a program had been installed into his program files dir complete with a shortcut in the start menu. I haven't seen this, but I'm wondering if it's possible for someone to defeat IE's security that easily and actually install an application. Does anyone know how this is done? Sorry I don't have any examples.
Current thread:
- Unscrupulous websites installing apps Jeff Miller (Sep 13)
- Re: Unscrupulous websites installing apps Nexus (Sep 14)
- RE: Unscrupulous websites installing apps Dom De Vitto (Sep 14)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Unscrupulous websites installing apps MortalCry (Sep 13)
- Re: Unscrupulous websites installing apps JERRYCTX (Sep 13)
- Re: Unscrupulous websites installing apps Nexus (Sep 14)