Re: Just curious



On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 20:50 -0600, debiani386 wrote:
Just curious, does IE4Linux support internet scripting like IE does?
(where people from outside your computer/network can execute stuff
through IE and do some damage to your machine)

--cj


Well, don't run IE as root. If you do run IE as root, expect bad things
to happen.

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Scott Lockwood


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