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Hi everyone

I have exchanged a couple of e-mails with the person who has

posted the thread " New to RR " on the arf12s newsgroup. In an

e-mail today, this persons website was published. I went to the

website and read some of the first page, kind of interesting. At

the bottom, I was assured that the webpage owner was now reading my

harddrive. There was then presented a list of the contents. Indeed

that's what it looked like.

I went to the website from the computer where I work, so basically

lots of people's stuff is/was in the possession of someone I don't

know. Is there something I don't know about? Is this even possible?

I'm about as far from being a techie as you can get, and I'm easily

joshed about this stuff. Anyway, I thought I'd warn everyone.

Sincerely,

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Hi, ,

I did the same thing and it gave me a very nasty jolt until I thought about it.

I'm no techie either, but think about it -- you are not communicating with his

computer, you are just looking at his web page, and he has embedded a command

that sends you back to your own hard drive, like the one you have on your

desktop (I'm assuming you're part of the 95% of people who have Windows 95).

It's like looking in a mirror. He's reflecting back what's on your hard disk --

he can't see it.

Delta, who is a techie, have you got any insights to add?

Kayleigh

> Hi everyone

>

> I have exchanged a couple of e-mails with the person who has

> posted the thread " New to RR " on the arf12s newsgroup. In an

> e-mail today, this persons website was published. I went to the

> website and read some of the first page, kind of interesting. At

> the bottom, I was assured that the webpage owner was now reading my

> harddrive. There was then presented a list of the contents. Indeed

> that's what it looked like.

>

> I went to the website from the computer where I work, so basically

> lots of people's stuff is/was in the possession of someone I don't

> know. Is there something I don't know about? Is this even possible?

> I'm about as far from being a techie as you can get, and I'm easily

> joshed about this stuff. Anyway, I thought I'd warn everyone.

>

> Sincerely,

>

>

>

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At 08:26 PM 6/25/98 PDT, rebecca fransway wrote:

>Hi everyone

>

>I have exchanged a couple of e-mails with the person who has

>posted the thread " New to RR " on the arf12s newsgroup. In an

>e-mail today, this persons website was published. I went to the

>website and read some of the first page, kind of interesting. At

>the bottom, I was assured that the webpage owner was now reading my

>harddrive. There was then presented a list of the contents. Indeed

>that's what it looked like.

>

>I went to the website from the computer where I work, so basically

>lots of people's stuff is/was in the possession of someone I don't

>know. Is there something I don't know about? Is this even possible?

Not really - (at least not the way I'm thinking) - there's an HTML trick

that tells the browser to display your root directory on your screen, it

does NOT actually get transferred back to the host computer and then back

to yours to be displayed on your screen. If you go to that web site and

pick " View Source " from your browser's menus, you'll see all that

http:// stuff, and somewhere where it says it's reading your hard drive,

it will have something like file://c: or something like that. Don't worry,

that does not send your files to the other computer.

There ARE things to worry about on the Web and other parts of the net,

but this isn't one of them. This is just a cheap trick.

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