"Huge" Shortcut Flaw

By Roger on June 8, 2006 11:01 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

The security gadflies thought they were onto something with the announcement that if a shortcut were named www.example.com and you typed that into your browser IE and Netscape would run what that shortcut pointed to.

The reason this isn't a huge security vulnerability is that an attacker would have to be able to create files on the system for it to occur. Not much of an attack.

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