ActiveX security hole reported.

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• Subject: ActiveX security hole reported.
• From: "Peter Trei" <trei@process.com>
• Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 11:07:38 -6
• CC: trei@process.com
• Comments: Authenticated sender is <trei@popserver>
• Organization: Process Software
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I have not confirmed this myself. It is forwarded from a mailing list.
				-Peter
				trei@process.com
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Date sent:        Fri, 09 Aug 96 18:15:32
From:             <jeremey@forequest.com>
Subject:          Fun with M$
To:               cypherpunks@toad.com
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Some guy has written an ActiveX control which crashes windoze95... I don't
use windoze so can't try it, but if someone else is brave, I'd love to know
if it works...

Information page with a link to a page which loads the control:

 http://www.halcyon.com/mclain/ActiveX/

Quote from the page:

Exploder is an Active X control which demonstrates security problems with
Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Exploder performs a clean shutdown of Win95
and will turn off the power on machines that have a power conservation BIOS
(green machines).

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Jeremey Barrett 
Senior Software Engineer			
jeremey@forequest.com 
The ForeQuest Company       			
http://www.forequest.com/

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