[WEB4LIB] Public Browser?

David J. Ives eldjives at showme.missouri.edu
Mon Feb 12 06:54:32 EST 2001


Same thing that can be done with Netscape & IE --
get a hexadecimal editor and replace the string "file:" in appropriate
executables/dll's with "filx:"

David Ives


On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Michael Dargan wrote:

> I've just looked at the Public Browser V1.20 and am quite impressed.
> However, I see that the program allows the user to browse the local hard
> drives and to open command prompt windows.  Any ideas, short of IKiosk,
> for thwarting such activity?
> 
> Thansk
> 
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