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[Joel De Gan]

It is ridiculously easy to make activex controls to install in browsers.
I hopped into windows and fired up delphi6 and made one (for fun) that
replaces any instance (in any webpage, replaced before IE parses) of the
word "Yahoo" with the word "shit".. Then surfed around looking at "shit
mail" and "shit autos" was funny but was really a test for doing ones
that replace graphics such as 468x60 with whatever I want, or finding
amazon.com referral codes and replacing them with mine etc.

I.E is a minefield for easy hacks like these.

(as a side note, I didn't do anything with that code, but did consider
selling it..)
-joeldg

On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 11:23, Michael R. McLarnon wrote:
> I have an idea:
> 1. Find a patch to make IE correctly display .PNG's
> 2. Add code on your website that takes advantage of one of IE's security 
> holes to install that patch on visitors' browsers.
> 3. Voila! Now your users can see your graphics correctly.
> 
> Turn that bug into a feature!
> 
> (Note: I originally meant this humorously, but now I am really curious 
> as to whether it could be done.)
> 
> Brian Pang wrote:
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joeldg - developer, Intercosmos media group.
http://lucifer.intercosmos.net