What the heck? Attack Site?

[SunSamurai]

Oh noes...I've been slighted by a fanboi of one of the "other" O/S's...

/been using windows 7 for two years now

 

[Zorkorist]

Attack suites have been compromising FireFox users for years using this same general modus operandi, a multi-pronged attack on secondary stuff like Flash, Reader, WinZip, RealPlayer, Java and other stuff that can be called up via the browser. Welcome to, like, 2007.



Actually, if FireFox ever goes the way of IE, and gets a Protected Mode, you'd be considerably safer from this sort of thing, since PM stops it at this stage:

Maybe FF 4.x will bring some sort of sandboxing to the table. In the meanwhile, if you prefer FF, try running it in Sandboxie. And of course, uninstall stuff you don't use, check the rest with Secunia PSI, fully arm your Data Execution Prevention, enable SEHOP, and keep UAC enabled.

FWIW, I never got this mesage, and now that you mention it, I'm pretty sure a virus would have popped up a message like that before being enabled.

The other message, about trying to install Adobe stuff was just your typical "Click Here! You've won a million dollars!" message.

-John

 

[esquared]

btw, anyone else notice that Anand has been relegated to "senior member?" looks like his Boss title didn't carry over with VB.

He's the Boss again.