Re: Malware Triangle

From: kurt wismer (kurtw_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 11/23/04 

Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 23:48:44 -0500

Ant wrote:
[snip]
> While HTML is not a programming language, for the purpose of this
> discussion it should be considered as such. It can contain scripts,
> and interpreting it in a browser could have the same effect as running
> a compiled executable file.

shame on you... if you can't make a program with it, it's not a
programming language... period...

an html document can act as a container, so can a zip file... that
doesn't make html a programming language anymore than it makes winzip a
compiler... 

-- 
"maxwell can tell he's in hell
just wants you to visit him there
same old game that he's playin'
his rules are never fair"

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