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		giantDinosaur on June 29, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Windows98 Running in the Browser 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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