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Special Forums Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions Stopping Windows 10 Clients? Post 302983559 by rbatte1 on Thursday 13th of October 2016 04:11:09 AM

10-13-2016

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Perhaps a policy that you role onto all the desktops could block outgoing traffic too, but it's hardly satisfactory. On the flip side, a browser should not be able to do damage to a web-server. If you web-server is vulnerable, then it needs patching. Most likely, if your application is vulnerable then that is a design issue that you probably can't lay at the door of Microsoft and is unlikely to be an issue only with Windows 10 of which a browser sits underneath.

There should be no material difference in the way a browser running under any operating system interacts with a web-server, there are standards for the conversations they will have and if they do not comply then the conversation is more likely to be terminated rather than do damage. The only possible exception might be a DoS issue if the browser loops, constantly issuing requests, but that is going to be a browser fault rather than a Windows 10 fault unless you have rogue software that is also making requests.

Good anti-virus/anti-malware is essential, whatever the platform.

Just my thoughts,
Robin

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WWWBrowser(3pm) 					User Contributed Perl Documentation					   WWWBrowser(3pm)

NAME

       WWWBrowser - platform independent means to start a WWW browser

SYNOPSIS

	   use WWWBrowser;
	   WWWBrowser::start_browser($url, -oldwindow => 1);

DESCRIPTION

   start_browser($url [, %args])
       Start a web browser with the specified URL. The process is started in background.

       The following optional parameters are recognized:

       -oldwindow => $bool
	   Normally, the URL is loaded into a new window, if possible. With "-oldwindow" set to a false window, "WWWBrowser" will try to re-use a
	   browser window.

       -browser => $browser
	   Use (preferebly) the named browser $browser. See "CONFIGURATION" for a some browser specialities. This option will only work for unix.

CONFIGURATION

       For unix, the global variable @WWWBrowser::unix_browsers can be set to a list of preferred web browsers. The following browsers are handled
       specially:

       lynx, w3m
	   Text oriented browsers, which are opened in an "xterm", "kvt" or "gnome-terminal" (if running under X11). If not running under X11,
	   then no background process is started.

       kfmclient
	   Use "openURL" method of kfm.

       netscape
	   Use "-remote" option to re-use a running netscape process, if possible.

       _default_gnome
	   Look into the "~/.gnome/Gnome" configuration file for the right browser.

       _default_kde
	   NYI.

       The following variables can be defined globally in the main package:

       $os Short name of operating system ("win", "mac" or "unix").

       &status_messages
	   Error handling function (instead of default "warn").

REQUIREMENTS

       For Windows, the Win32Util module should be installed in the path.

AUTHOR

       Slaven Rezic <slaven@rezic.de>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 1999,2000,2001,2003 Slaven Rezic. All rights reserved.  This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
       it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

       Win32Util.

perl v5.10.0							    2009-03-10							   WWWBrowser(3pm)