Subj : Realplayer opens Netscape visiting sit
To   : Mark Lewis
From : Jim Rysyk
Date : Wed Aug 23 2000 05:19 pm

 > CERT(r) Advisory CA-2000-15 Netscape Allows Java Applets to Read 
 > Protected Resources


I found another security problem using Realplayer basic Ver 7, or Beta 8 with 
Win 98SE.  I wounder if the same thing could occure under OS/2?
                                                               

This week, probally yesterday, visiting "ZDTV" site for streaming video NEWS, 
the site caused my Netscape 4.74 to fire up, and to http over to ZDTV.


Then just a few hours ago when I was away having supper, I had netscape 4.74 
sessions on three sites, and Realplayer Audio just finished a web broadcast, 
one of the sites or someone was causing my 1-Meg modem to transfer something.  

Killing one http session to a registration screen site for broadcast.com I 
beleive, caused the modem to stop Xfering what ever was being transfered.  

Possible the transfer was over.  The WEB cast was over for several minutes, but 
I took longer to finish lunch, and do the dishes, before getting back to the 
computer.
               

As I understand it, ZDTV was taken over this week by Microsoft, after turfing 
the founder(s).

            
Has anyone else experianced similar thing with Realplayer, and Netscape on any 
OS?  I was forced to PPPoE, and the ISP only supplied PPPoE for Windows, so ... 
I had to stop surfing with OS/2.  


In five months, Windows has required more maintance, disk scans, defrags, 
cleanups, reboots, reinstalls, and has locked out more allegidley bad drive 
sectors, than OS/2 had in 10 years, the last three years this very same 
hardware ran OS/2 flawlessley before being reformated to Win 98 SE to use PPPoE 
in March.

My personal opinion after 5 months, is this Win 98 SE OS should never been sent 
out to Beta.


Anyone using Sympatico PPPoE with OS/2?


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