View Full Version : Minor spoofing bug affects Mozilla
McDuff
01-13-2005, 09:16 AM
Minor threat about downloading files:
www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1749884,00.asp (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1749884,00.asp)
McD
"Rather be ridin' than rollin'"
betheny
01-13-2005, 01:31 PM
Uhhh...what does this mean?
Signed,
Clueless again http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
McDuff
01-13-2005, 10:51 PM
Someone could fool you into downloading a malicious file by making you think it was coming from a reliable website. This is because the long pathname to the file gets truncated to fit and those hidden parts could be actually pointing somewhere else and you wouldn't know it.
McD
"Rather be ridin' than rollin'"
betheny
01-14-2005, 01:09 AM
TYVM.http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif
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LessClueLess
If your skin is thin, best keep it off the Internet-Betheny