on 4-17-2009 9:33 AM Lanny Marcus spake the following: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:25 AM, William L. Maltby > <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> wrote: >> On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 11:13 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: >>> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Michael A. Peters <mpeters-ee4meeAH724 at public.gmane.org> wrote: >>> <snip> >>>> My experience is that when browsing on any OS and you come across an >>>> error message stating that your computer is infected and you need to >>>> install such and such software, the web site I was visiting has an XSS >>>> exploit that was taken advantage of to try and get you to manually >>>> install a piece of malware. >>>> >>>> Install the FireFox extension "noscript" and be very careful about what >>>> domains you authorize scripting from. > > I now have NoScript installed. > > <snip> >> You might want to also check your preferences. FF has settings about >> warning about fraud sites etc. You also can affect the things that >> javascripts can do and suppress pop-ups. I've encountered those things >> that you mentioned and gotten no ill-effects since I just leave the site >> immediately. > > Bill: I will double check the Firefox configuration settings, since I > upgraded from CentOS 5.2 to 5.3, last Friday night. I need to be able > to visit that web site, so if anything bad is coming from it (without > the knowledge of the webmaster) I will hopefully avoid it, with the > NoScript Firefox extension which I just installed. Lanny Noscript will give you an idea of just how many sites run a script of some kind. You will see a large part of sites just look different when the scripts don't run, and some don't function at all. Not that it is a bad thing, it will just make you think a lot. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090417/82ae35d8/attachment-0005.sig>