On Saturday, December 18, 2010 02:21:37 pm Jim wrote: > It does not make any difference what Website your on it's just pops up > and starts
At least it doesn't infect your PC with the 'fake Windows AntiVirus' virus. I've seen these a time or two, from seemingly random websites; one of them was a technical blog about the merits of JFS versus XFS. I have a screenshot of that one. Yesterday I found another. In my case, I hit the X for that tab, and then hit ok (since the systempack107_2089.exe that that downloaded won't autorun on Linux; and you really don't want to set up autorun through wine...:-)). And it went away. Got the .exe though for future analysis. That same advice on Windows produces a tenacious infection of a rogue antivirus program that is in reality a virus itself that tries to scam you out of money for buying a subscription. It's just a matter of time before the rogue antivirus writers figure out how to make this work with Linux.....unfortunately. Time for sandboxing of Firefox and other apps that can run that mess. And while such a virus can't overwrite system files if you're browsing as a normal user, it certainly *can* infect your own files, such as .bashrc for one, which would produce essentially the same effect as on Windows (and with the default F14 setup disallowing root logins, you need to make a second 'rescue' user to remove such nasties without reverting to a text console and root). -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
