Re: To All of You Netscape Users

[Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>]

I think you've been spoofed.

All the person needs to do to achieve this is put a link on the page
that begins with "file://c:". It doesn't mean anyone can see files
on your computer.

Don't believe me? Well, if you have a mail program that understands
URLs, click on the highlighted text above and watch what happens.

--Brett


At 04:54 PM 4/15/98 -0400, claribba wrote:
 
>Paranoia strikes again.  I know many of you are Netscape users so here's an
>unpleasant experience I had using this browser.
>
>Last Saturday while web surfing, I came across a site which had a click-on
>bar stating "CLICK TO SEE WHAT I KNOW ABOUT YOUR C:\ DRIVE".
>
>So I did, and there was a list of all my folders and files.  The top line
>link read: "...to go to higher level..." , which listed all of my drives.
>
>I consider this a major flaw in the browser, to allow this to happen.
>Netscape's reply to my email enquiry was a long, irrelevant form letter
>about "cookies".  DUH!   They have ignored my response to this bit of
>garbage.  And it happens with both Navigator 3.01 and Navigator 4.05.
>
>The url is:  http://www.geocities.com/area51/cavern/7081/gregor.html
>
>It's the  William Wallace home page. If this site can read my hard drive,
>so can every other web site.  Maybe all browsers have this "feature"?
>
>
>Claire Macdonald
>