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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.server -> Re: --==CELERON 466Mhz ONLY $1.95 -- it's real, it's work===---
Probably not since Mindspring is one of the big supporters of the rights of
spammers.
This technique is used quite often on adult-oriented newsgroups to force the browser to open a window for an adult-oriented website. Not only that, but if you close the window it will automatically open another. You close that and it will open another. I've see this go on for about 10 times before I finally got everything killed.
Arvin Meyer wrote:
>
> Thanks for the info. It is the newsreader that is accepting HTML. I wish I
> could turn it off, but that doesn't appear possible. Perhaps I can persuade
> Mindspring to filter HTML from their news servers.
> ---
> Arvin Meyer
>
> Terje Krogdahl wrote in message ...
> >"Arvin Meyer" <a_at_m.com> writes:
> >
> >> Allright, we know this is spam. But how did this joker force my browser
> to
> >> open at the page below?
> >
> >The evil kid assumed that you were using a webbrowser with javascript
> >support to read news, and posted his message as both text/plain and
> >text/html. Your browser selected HTML, parsed the html code, and as
> >it came across this line:
> >
> ><BODY
> onload="window.open('http://www.gamma-ent.com/pc/index.html','RemoteWindow')
> ">
> >
> >it popped up a new window with the website in it. Both Netscape and
> >IE has a history of serious javascript related bugs, so you'd be better
> >off without javascript. What this really shows is one of the many good
> >reasons not to allow HTML in news postings.
> >
> >My ISPs newsserver will not accept html, neither in posting nor incoming
> >feeds. I like that.
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Received on Tue Oct 12 1999 - 09:00:15 CDT
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