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MSIE 5

  • To: NTBUGTRAQLISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM
  • Subject: MSIE 5
  • From: "Claudio Valderrama C." <cvaldeUSA.NET>
  • Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 01:16:36 -0400
  • Approved-By: Russ.CooperRC.ON.CA
  • Importance: Normal
  • Reply-To: "Claudio Valderrama C." <cvaldeUSA.NET>
  • Sender: Windows NT BugTraq Mailing List <NTBUGTRAQLISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM>
Hello.
        I hope this will avoid headaches to system administrators:
- MSIE 5, when installed, changes silently the setting for the cookies to
"Accept always" no matter how did you have it in IE4 before. This is because
M$ changed cookies configuration from the "Advanced" to the "Security" tab.
- MSIE 5 cannot be used with cookies set to "Prompt before accepting" when
visiting sites that send many cookies: after choosing NO (reject) to each
cookie more than three or four times, MSIE will crash with a memory error. I
was able to repeat the crash in some NT systems: a generic computer, a Dell
computer, etc. Look for a cookie intensive site, like www.celebsite.com and
see for yourself. I never saw this to happen on MSIE 4 SP1.
- MSIE 5 includes a new "Allow per session cookies" setting, that's enabled
by default. I think session cookies are less dangerous than persistent
cookies.
- By default, AutoComplete will offer to save passwords used on sites you
visit. Be careful, because while you are typing to fill in a form, if you
continue typing, you may press the "Y" as part of your text just in the
moment the popup window ask you to save the pw and you won't notice what
happened.
- MSIE 5 created a service called "COM+ Event System" no matter I downloaded
first all files and later I installed custom. What is this service intended
for? I remember that after installing RDS (part of M$'UDA), I discovered
some RDS objects where opened to anyone that knew how to connect to them. I
hope this time, the new service won't open a new security breach.

        Note that all computers had NT 4 SP4 installed and it's the US version.

C.
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