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Subject: Java/Virus/Whatever
From: Joe Klemmer <klemmerj @ webtrek . com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 08:45:52 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: Firewall list <firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM>
In-reply-to: <Pine . OSF . 3 . 93 . 970727192712 . 32272A-100000 @ europa . lif . icnet . uk>
Reply-to: klemmerj @ webtrek . com

On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, David Harley wrote:

> > As an aside, there used to be a web site out there somewhere that had
> > several examples of how evil Javascript really is -- several links
> > which explicitly said 'don't click here' would do fairly benign things
> > like download the contents of your hard drive -- but I don't seem to
> > have bookmarked the URL.
> 
> Mark LaDue at Georgia Tech had a page of hostile java applets - can't
> lay hands on the URL right now (I'm not web-able right now). Can't
> remember if it included javascript applets too. 

	This was only java, IIR.  I haven't run across any real javascript
"doom 'n' gloom" pages yet.
 
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