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| Home | Features | DMA® Info | About | Vol 28 Issue 1 June 2003 |
Really Stupid Internet Explorer CrashFrom Woody's Windows XP ** online: I can't believe this. Ramon Cascales on Bugtraq reports that a simple five-line HTML document (and I mean a simple five-liner) will crash Internet Explorer. Or Outlook. Or FrontPage. Or anything else that uses Internet Explorer's SHLWAPI.DLL to render HTML. No, I'm not going to show you the code, or give you direct links. But you do need to know about this because some cretin, somewhere may use it soon to make your life a little miserable. If you view (or even preview) a formatted email message, or you go to a Web site, and all of a sudden Internet Explorer dies ("Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close"), or Outlook dies, there's a chance that IE is trying to interpret this incredibly simple piece of HTML. What can you do about it? Not much. If IE crashes on a Web page, avoid the page. Right-click any crashing message and delete it before Outlook slaps a preview on the screen. There's no workaround. It isn't a major security exposure. Just a stupid bug in IE - and a potential pain in the neck. ** [Once again I suggest my readers visit Woody's Office Watch and Woody's Window Watch. Great information and tips on all aspects of Microsoft's Windows and Office Suites. These are the sites I keep recommending to you readers who use Windows and Microsoft Office. |
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