Re: To All of You Netscape Users

[Linux Idiot <esoteric@atlnet.com>]

claribba wrote:

I don't know if you know anything about html, but this is perfectly
harmless.  If you view the code for his page, he's basically doing a
call to file:///c:/ from netscape.  You can do this yourself, by typing
in the location field file:///c:/.  It's the ability of netscape to load
local html files, as well as any file.  What you end up seeing is the
directory listing.  You can see, the person that wrote the code can
not.  This is a very common 'trick' people use to scare folks.  It
should work under IE as well.

> 
> 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

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