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From: LindyBill7/28/2007 7:25:28 AM
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Worth checking. I had three out of four set to "false."

Major vulnerability in FireFox on Windows
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Adriana Lukas (London) Self defence & security

A public service warning! You surf the internet at random using FireFox (which generally you should), you may stumble across a website, which could infest your machine with a virus. But this is nothing new, I have heard about these evil websites full of Trojans and other nasty viruses and I know better... I hear you cry. Apparently, this particular attack does not require a download. Which means that is unlikely to be trapped by your anti-virus software, certainly in the short-term.

Protecting yourself for now is fairly simple. You will need to make a trivial modification to your FireFox settings.

To do this, start FireFox, enter the URL "about:config", scroll down, and for each of the following entries make sure it is set to "true".

If it isn't, right-click the line and choose "Toggle", which will set the value to "true"

network.protocol-handler.warn-external-default
network.protocol-handler.warn-external.mailto
network.protocol-handler.warn-external.news
network.protocol-handler.warn-external.nntp
network.protocol-handler.warn-external.snews

This will at least give you a warning that Firefox is being asked to do something suspicious; you will have to judge for yourself whether it is nasty.

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