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Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 22:06:04 +0200 (CET DST)
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From: &quot;Orn E. Hansen&quot; &lt;oe.hansen@oehansen.pp.se&gt;
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Continuous communications, even after netscape exits

Package: netscape
Version: 3.01-4

  I'm not sure which package this should belong to.  But since Netscape is the 
one who brings it about, I'll submit it here.

  I use a dial on demand connection, in which case I pay for the connection by 
the minute, like so many others :-)  However, Netscape is issueing 
communications behind the walls, that continue even after Netscape has been
exited.  This particular subject, is one I noticed several months ago, as
running keeps up the line continuously.  And if Diald brings down the link,
because of inactivity, it gets brought up again within a minute or two, by a
issueing strange communications, that include broadcasts on my local network,
and gateway communications.

  Whatever the authors of Netscape meant, by having this &quot;feature&quot; in Netscape,
I would without hesitation, call this a severe security violation and a serious
security risk to any serious system.  As I estimate, that what I am seeing is
the 'applets' and that they are continuously &quot;playing ball&quot;.  And that some
shadow remains (java core?), when netscape exits.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 1.3
Kernel Version: Linux oehansen 2.0.30 #1 Fri May 9 10:44:25 EST 1997 i486 unknow
n

Versions of the packages netscape depends on:                                   
xpm4.7  Version: 3.4g-9
motifnls        Version: 2.1-1.1
libc5   Version: 5.4.23-4                    
ldso    Version: 1.9.2-3 (Provides Virtual Package libdl1)
xlib6   Version: 3.2-6          


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