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Bob Davis

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According to this article in Infoworld, Security Expert Georgi Guninski has discovered a bug which can compromise the security of a machine, even if it is behind a firewall through the use of malicious JavaScript code in a web page.

Microsoft's recommendation is that Active Scripting be disabled on 5.0 versions of Internet Explorer to eliminate the possibility of this expliot until a patch can be developed.

Additionally, BugNet reports that a rendering bug in IE5 can result in corrupted tags which, while not ruining them for general web use, will render them unusable by XML parsers.

See http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?990929.eciewoes.htm for more information.

Bob is a Product Manager for Rackspace Hosting in San Antonio, TX. He hasn't built a web site in years, now. All of his articles on this site are old old old! Hopefully they are still useful for someone!

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