Internet Explorer Test Site

[fos]

http://moritz-naumann.com/tests/xss2.jpg (http://moritz-naumann.com/tests/xss2.jpg)

This page was provided by the vBulletin support site. It tests for the M$ XSS security vulnerability. If your IE browser has the security patch it will display a blank page. If does not have the security patch it will display a warning message.

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[AndreL]

I see a white page... (?)

[fos]

I should have explained. A blank screen is a good thing. If your version of IE hasn't been patched for the XSS security flaw, a window stating that you have a "crummy" browser will display. It displays because IE is executing a script embedded in the image file which is a major security intrusion. Real browser either don't perform the script or display an error code. The reason for many of M$s security flaws is due to processes like IE given root type permissions by executing code rather than performing only the tasks the code packages is supposed to do.

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[AndreL]

Ha!
Well, I haven't use IE for quite a long (long) time...
Before Firefox, I had Opera. Actually, I had removed IE from my Windows boxes a good while ago (contrarily to what MS claimed as impossible at the time), thanks to "98Lite"... :)

[benjaminq]

http://moritz-naumann.com/tests/xss2.jpg (http://moritz-naumann.com/tests/xss2.jpg)

I always thought http://www.astalavista.com was an IE test site.

BEFORE you try it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:

This page leads to various illegal content like serialz or serial numberz crackerz and so on that I once used in my "childhood". This site will produce a neverending flaw of (ponr) pop-up windows if you try to use it further and it will spawn an unprotectd machine with dialers, trojans and virii. !!! So you have been warned.

I know about this site because there was a Linux-blog reporting on it, telling the tale of a Linux users friedn who thought his machine was bulletproof and that Linux had lower security standards (and the whole blah blah MS was spreading at that time ...). He sent his freind over to that site ... reported about the result (a borked up machine) and he faced himself with about a hundred complaints afterwards (because other people using Windows and IE thought they were bulletproof themselves ...) and he reported on these complaints also (like: "how can one be mistaken if one tells the people what NOT to do and why then hear the complaints what happened when they nevertheless did it ...")

It was hilarious, but I am unable to find it anymore ...

So again, if you read this on an average MS Windows machine and IE (InternetExplorer) is your browser: do NOT visit the above link.

[jpaulb]

What is IE

[fos]

IE = Microsoft Internet Explorer

[jpaulb]

IE = Microsoft Internet Explorer
Oh :smiley7:
Haven't used that in years. I do have the latest copy of Windoze 98, but it isn't installed on any box I own.

Trying to keep a virus free enviroment around here:)