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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
the best way to protect yourself 2002-06-05
Anonymous
Software that will prevent these bugs from causing damage 2002-06-05
<codetek (at) codetek (dot) com [email concealed]> (2 replies)
What if 2002-06-06
Anonymous
I delete everything under the Gopher Key in the Registry and then Write-protect the key, so that its content cannot be overwritten.

Very much like deleting the Outlook and Outlook Express Files and Removing access to the Directory for everyone, but leaving the empty directory there.

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