Re: To All of You Netscape Users

[Ted Halmrast <tedh@tera.teralink.com>]

This is a spoof.  All they do is redirect your browser to the 
"file://c:/" URL.  Fear not, your files are safe (well, at least from 
this particular spoof anyway).

Ted Halmrast

On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, 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