Re: Re: Stepper motor control boards

I do agree about the problems with ActiveX and such but I was
able to read Hans' page with Netscape 4.7 on an SGI Octane.

Drew

On Dec 2, 12:28pm, beer@... wrote:
> Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Stepper motor control boards
> From: beer@...
>
>
> I suspect that unless a person has IE 5 with all the ActiveX controls
> and Microsoft Java ( as opposed to the REAL Java ) installed, they won't
> be able to read Hans' page with any version of Netscape.
>
> That is, to read the page, Netscape will need the IE5 "features" that
> allow
>
> 1. coolness
> 2. almost any hacker anywhere complete and total access to your
> computer.
>
> Simply reading a page with IE5 can allow a malicious web site operator
> to easily gain access to your machine. It's not that I have my credit
> card numbers or passwords
>
> Microsoft has published about 70 to 80 security related patches and
> fixes for IE5 ! ( They EMail me 3 - 5 announcements a week ) These are
> just the ones they admit to and have fixed, the complete list of security
> problems is much longer. Some of these holes are very scary indeed.
>
> It's a shame that all that hard work Hans put in is available to so few,
> and requires the installation of software that no one in their right
> mind would ever install.
>
>
> Alan
>-- End of excerpt from beer@...



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