Fwd: Microsoft Internet Explorer security patch (fwd)

[Joanne Sullivan <joanne@SHORE.NET>]

My internet provider sent this out to its subscribers:

Subject:     Microsoft Internet Explorer security patch (fwd)
Sent:        8/24/96 12:00 PM
Received:    8/25/96 11:18 PM
From:        Lowell J. Gray, ljg@shore.net
Reply-To:    support@shore.net
To:          shore-members@shore.net

There is a patch now available to fix the major security hole in
the new Microsoft Internet Explorer v3.0.

> >From MS's web site:
>
>                   NOTE: Microsoft has made a patch available to
>                     the current release of Internet Explorer 3.0. This
>                     patch updates IE to fix a usability problem with
>                     site that require usernames and passwords, and
>                     also fixes a security issue with application
>                     document files discovered by researchers at
>                     Princeton.
> The link to the patch is:
> http://198.105.232.5:80/msdownload/iepatch.htm

Sincerely,

support@shore.net



Joanne Sullivan

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