Allen writes:
<< But when you click on a button entitled:
"Want to see what the Undertaker dug up on your HD?"
a window pops up with the DOS page "Directory Listing of /C:"
with the contents of your hard drive on it. You can even open
jpegs on your system in this window. Uh, what sort of program
is this and is it potentially harmful? It's spooky!>>
Sounds like a variation of an old trick used by some sites to fool you into
thinking that they are able to exploit "security holes" in your system and
that you should spend xxx dollars in purchasing their whiz-bang safety screen.
All the page is doing is directing your computer to read its own hard
drive--in all probability nothing's going anywhere and no harm done.
Don Penlington
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