>>>>The cookie problem is being abused more than most people realize. Cookies can fire pre-existing scripts (MS scripts) to extract the GUID, installed apps, etc., automatically, to be retrieved the next time the user browses certain sites that have 'signed on' to these stealth spying adventures.
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>>>Do you mean that IE will try to "act" (run code) upon cookies rather than just treat them as simple text as it should?
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>>Not only on cookies, but on system macros and scripts. How else do you think pixel bugs, email viri, etc., work? How can a simple cookie acquire the GUID and other info of the machine it is planted on unless it uses internal scripts to retrieve such information? How else can just browsing a rogue website cause malicious code to be downloaded and executed on the client PC? In fact, such an exploit was just announced this morning (15th) by George Guninski,
>>http://www.guninski.com/popspoof.html and is already 25 days old!
>>Or this one, http://www.guninski.com/vv2xp.html about which Microsoft was informed FOUR months ago.
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>Jerry;
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>I was happy with CP/M, Word Star 0.92 and my 300 baud modem on my S-100 Bus Computer, and LA-20 Printer. We have come a long way with computer technology. :)
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>Tom

I liked CP/M too, but really enjoyed my Apple II+. In 1981 an Apple II+ with a 15" TV, 2 Disk II (148Kb @, IIRC), 64KB of RAM and a Centronics 749 printer could be yours for only $5,000. The printer died before it got out of the shop, and the Centronics repair man flew in from Omaha to fix it. Total bill was $648, nearly half the price of the printer. I liked the apple because the 6502 asm was fund to code, Apple Basic was a nobrainer, and Apple had the best graphics at the time. You could access the video directly through bios calls.
For example, instead of doing "HOME" in Basic to clear the screen, you could use "Call -936" it it was a lot faster. When Apple switched released the Apple IIC they changed the entry points on many of the bios calls and immediately rendered useless about 10,000 graphical apps or apps the made calls to non-standard bios points.
Jerry