Beware of CTRL + C (copy)

[guitarman]

Do you know that whatever you copy while you are online, it is saved into a clipboard and can be accessed by javascript or any other scripting language?

Try below:

1- Select any part of the link in this site, and then press CTRL+ C
2- using your I.E (internet explorer) and click the link here: http://www.sourcecodesworld.com/special/clipboard.asp

3- Now you can see whatever you have just copied.

That sucks! it's a real security risk!

Guitarman,

[guitarman]

Luckily, you can disable it by the following:

1- Go to internet options->security
2- Press custom level
3- In the security settings, select disable under Allow paste operations via script.

Hope that helps. Found from http://www.malluwood.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2249

[Singachea]

[triumph]

That is why I don't use internet explorer. I use firefox.

[indogo]

Yeh I use firefox and nothing showed up...........phew....

[anarch]

That's really creepy! I had no clue that something like that could be done... But firefox avoids it somehow? Is it just IE that's susceptible then?

[indogo]

Yes IE is THE security risk of the net...combining an operating system and a web browser is a bad move.
Choose any alternative and enjoy......

regards

mike

[Singachea]

No matter how bad IE is, it still dominates the majority of the market share. Let's see the next step of IE, i.e. IE7

[angivodka]

thanks for the tip it is good to be aware of these things. so is firefox loads better than internet explorer then?

[indogo]

Yes do try it out...it is very good....written by web users for web users....


mike