[Am-info] First "auto-download" vulnerability in OS X

[John Bryan]

On Thursday, February 28, 2002, at 08:57  AM, Sujal Shah wrote:

>
> Does anyone know what, if any, bad things happen if I delete IE on Mac
> OS X?
>
>

To my experience, nothing.  I have Omniweb set as my default and have 
specified that all .html and .htm files be opened using OW.  I usually 
keep IE 5.1 for OS X compressed and archived in case I must have it for 
some sites, (eg. some job sites, and sites that do things with 
javascript that are not yet fully supported with OW).  I am using v4.1 
'sneaky peek 49', which is the latest build made available, although it 
is not I believe a 'blessed', formal release.

But nothing bad will happen on your machine, to my experience, if you 
remove it.

If I may put in a plug: Omnigroup is doing a great job with this product 
by the way.  There is considerable interaction between their reps and 
users on their Omniweb users email list, and it is reflected in the 
product.  Web pages have never looked better than when rendered with 
OW.  Support for other languages is the best I've seen.  Even the titles 
of pages and bookmarks are displayed using the other language, (eg. 
Chinese characters), which is really cool. I did finally pay the 
registration fee, something like $30 IIRC.  I am not associated with 
Omni Group other than as a customer.

JB