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Gopher Attacks Are Latest IE Security Threat
Brian McWilliams, SecurityFocus 2002-06-04

Browser's support for archaic technology lets attackers burrow in.

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Instant Patch 2002-06-05
Anonymous
just block it from the registry

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\gopher\shell\open\command

replace that string value with notepad.exe or nothing at all.

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