Re: Why you should use a firewall on Win98
From: Connected (connected_at_somewhere.here)
Date: 03/15/05
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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:35:34 -0800
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:10:11 +0900, Gerald Vogt <vogt@spamcop.net>
wrote:
>None. I don't need any. No malware gets onto my computer. So why should
>I scan for some?
Unless you use Lynx or FF with no Java or Java scripting you are not
safe.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/11/alternative_slimeware/
Some useful citizen has created an installer that will nail IE with
spyware, even if a surfer is using Firefox (or another alternative
browser) or has blocked access to the malicious site in IE beforehand.
The technique allows a raft of spyware to be served up to Windows
users in spite of any security measures that might be in place.
Christopher Boyd, a security researchers at Vitalsecurity.org, said
the malware installer was capable of working on a range of browsers
with native Java support. "The spyware installer is a Java applet
powered by the Sun Java Runtime Environment, which allows them to
whack most browsers out there, including Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape
and others. In the original test, only Opera and Netcaptor didn't fall
for the install but Daniel Veditz, who is the head of Mozilla
security, has since confirmed to me that this will also work in Opera
and Netcaptor," he explained.
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