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The Attack of the Alerts and the Zombie Script (IE)
In IE11 an ActiveXObject htmlFile yields a second window object whose alert ignores the user choice to suppress further dialogs, so a page can throw dialogs with no way out. Saving a self-reference on that object and calling window.open with _self stops IE destroying it, leaving setInterval code running after the victim has navigated away to another site.
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- Manuel Caballero
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- Broken Browser
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