Gopher Attacks Are Latest IE Security Threat

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

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

Gopher Attacks Are Latest IE Security Threat 2002-06-04
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Software that will prevent these bugs from causing damage 2002-06-05
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Software that will prevent these bugs from causing damage 2002-06-06
Anonymous

What if 2002-06-06
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Gopher Attacks Are Latest IE Security Threat (write protect)? 2002-06-09
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Gopher Attacks Are Latest IE Security Threat (write protect)? 2002-06-11
Pasti

Gopher Attacks Are Latest IE Security Threat 2002-06-11
Anonymous

Uh....who the HELL uses Gopher anymore?

Now after you ponder this question a little, ask yourself why support for freakin' GOPHER(!) had not been removed from IE's codebase a long time ago.

Everyone knows that MS has no problem with bloating code. The issue here seems to be that noone at MS periodically reviews the code see if it could be streamlined by, say, REMOVING SUPPORT FOR A BLOODY PROTOCOL NOONE USES ANYMORE.....

*sigh*

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Microsoft will not help 2002-06-12
Geoff Shively

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