Posted by ato_zee on 11/24/06 16:25

On 24-Nov-2006, "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote:

> > I'm trying to make a link in an HTML document hosted on the web that
> > will launch a program on the client's computer that they already have
> > installed. I can point it to the program's exe file with a parameter
> > set but it asks permission to run a program.
>
> Wow, not that's a scary thought! No, think of the security implications.

Microsoft do it all the time, in fact they could probably disable/cripple
most of the worlds PC's, now that is scary, except for those of us
who are so ****ed off with MS$ that they have blocked all call homes
at their firewall.

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