Warning: Netscape on older systems

Greetings, This is probably known, or at least suspected, by some, but in case anyone here is running a version of Netscape below the latest (or nearly latest (?), 4.76, IIRC) on their UNIX systems (esp. older systems that may not be able to run the newest version), you may want to create a sepearate login and just su to that in another window to run Nutscrape, if you run it at all. Versions prior to 4.76, when visiting web sites containing malicious code, can be made to execute arbitrary commands on one's system. Not sure if this applies to systems other than UNIX as well, but in any case, I think this is yet more proof of the usefulness of external modems that have at least transmit and receive lights on them. On several occasions, I've noticed them blinking when they shouldn't have been when I was using Netscape, and quickly turned the modem off. -- Copyright (C) 2000 R. D. Davis "The best way to gain a true understanding of All Rights Reserved Wile E. Coyote on the Roadrunner cartoons is to rdd(a)perqlogic.com 410-744-4900 fly, head-first, off a horse into something like http://www.perqlogic.com/rdd a fence or a tree; trust me, this works." --RDD