Friday, September 14, 2007
Sometimes it's putting things together that's dangerous
This time it's Firefox plus Quicktime, the media player. People are arguing now over whether to blame Quicktime or Firefox. That doesn't matter. What does matter is that something disguised as a media file can take over your computer.
Definitely happens on Windows, reports are mixed about whether it happens on Macs. Some reports say that it happens on Internet Explorer but that Microsoft's new security precautions contain it, other reports say that nothing happens.
What you need to do to protect yourself is to stay out of bad neighborhoods and run the NoScript Firefox extension, which protects against this and many other problems.
via the folks at Watchguard.
UPDATE 9/18:
The Firefox developers have made a change to Firefox that should prevent it from happening. When Firefox asks for permission to upgrade, say yes.
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Definitely happens on Windows, reports are mixed about whether it happens on Macs. Some reports say that it happens on Internet Explorer but that Microsoft's new security precautions contain it, other reports say that nothing happens.
What you need to do to protect yourself is to stay out of bad neighborhoods and run the NoScript Firefox extension, which protects against this and many other problems.
via the folks at Watchguard.
UPDATE 9/18:
The Firefox developers have made a change to Firefox that should prevent it from happening. When Firefox asks for permission to upgrade, say yes.
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