[ILUG] random web bits

Nick Murtagh nickm at go2.ie
Fri Jul 9 15:46:46 IST 2004


Justin wrote:
> That WMV just did something odd on my macOsX safari,. Open a browser 
> window with
> 
> file:///private/tmp/501/TemporaryItems/AOLTemp.html
> 
> which contains <html><script 
> language='javascript'>window.history.go(-2);</script></html>
> 
> Anyone know what that is about ???

Well I noticed that double clicking a wmv in gnome 2.6 brings up a dire
security warning dialog. You have to explicitly open it with totem.

My conclusion is that wmv files may contain dangerously high levels of
evil.



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