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		jychang on June 29, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Windows98 Running in the Browser Hilariously, Microsoft production servers are also set to the MSN default homepage, even though most forests are firewalled off from the entire internet. So the homepage doesn't even load.

giantDinosaur on June 29, 2020 [–]

Not loading is surely preferable.

netsharc on June 29, 2020 | [–]

Didn't some ad server serving msn homepage managed to be exploited to serve malware to old IE versions.

So the hapless admin who needs to download a file off the web (with no other browsers installed, and no firewall) would open IE and boom, exploit!

deadwing0 on June 29, 2020 | | [–]

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2016/01/msn-ho...

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