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Posted by PA Bear on August 28, 2007, 2:17 am
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Now pull the other one.
Antonicus wrote:
> I have Zonealarm Version 7 and use Opera and Firefox exclusively on
> XP.
>
> However recently I brought up the IE browser which is hidden in
> Wordpad. ( Click Help Topics in Wordpad, Click the Question Mark top
> left and click jump to URL)
>
> I was able to connect to www.aliceinvideoland.co.nz and use its
> search functions( even though there was a specific block on " Mobile
> code" Zonealarms name for a mix of Javascript, vbscript, Java and
> Active X)
>
> Opera and Firefox were unable to get through this block to operate the
> search function as one would expect.
>
> When this block was removed Firefox and Opera could then access the
> site to use the search function.
>
> This implies that this embedded IE is able to do an end run around
> firewalls even though the Firewall is specifically set to black code
> from a specific site.
>
> I must admit to be most unpleasantly surprised when IE broke security
> in this fashion.
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