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Old August 20th, 2004, 07:18 AM
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IE Drag-and-Drop Flaw Warning

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http://www.internetnews.com/security...le.php/3397361
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Old August 20th, 2004, 02:04 PM
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Here's a slightly different slant:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3583860.stm

From what I can gather this particular exploit would require a lot of action on the part of the user.
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Old August 20th, 2004, 02:42 PM
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Yesterday there was an article that suggested disabling Active Scripting is order to avoid the problem. I tried changing Active Scripting to "prompt" for a few minutes and found it difficult to navigate around the internet. I was "prompted" at virtually every site I went to. I finally re-enabled it.
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