Any website can read your clipboard text

[Guest]

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Web sites you visit can retrieve data from your clipboard depending on
your security settings. Go to this page (www.clipboard.googlemyway.com)
and see if anything shows up in the box. If you are using Firefox or
Opera you probably won't see anything. However, if you are using
Internet Explorer then chances are that whatever you last copied into
your clipboard will be displayed.

 

[tRaX]

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sudarmuthu@gmail.com wrote:

|>Web sites you visit can retrieve data from your clipboard depending on
|>your security settings. Go to this page (www.clipboard.googlemyway.com)
|>and see if anything shows up in the box. If you are using Firefox or
|>Opera you probably won't see anything. However, if you are using
|>Internet Explorer then chances are that whatever you last copied into
|>your clipboard will be displayed.

That's nothing, do you have ActiveX active? Now that can screw you.
http://www.nsclean.com/exploit.htm

also
http://tinyurl.com/bc87g

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http://www.alternet.org/katrina/25320/

 

[Guest]

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See also:

How to Prevent Web Sites From Obtaining Access to the Contents of Your
Windows Clipboard:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=224993

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org


<sudarmuthu@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1127051584.370536.103590@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Web sites you visit can retrieve data from your clipboard depending on
> your security settings. Go to this page (www.clipboard.googlemyway.com)
> and see if anything shows up in the box. If you are using Firefox or
> Opera you probably won't see anything. However, if you are using
> Internet Explorer then chances are that whatever you last copied into
> your clipboard will be displayed.
>