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Old 06-07-2008, 11:20 AM   #1
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LXer: My Linux Box is INFECTED!

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And please...don't tell me "that's what you get for allowing Javascript to run in my browser." I refuse to be intimidated into crippling my computing experience. Extensions like no-script might take care of this but at what cost? No...we fix the problem, not amputate part of the browsing experience for expediency.

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Old 06-07-2008, 02:23 PM   #2
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That's pretty amusing. I wonder if users of Firefox 3 can view that or if the anti-phishing thingie blocks the page. I'm using Firefox 2 still.
 
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killall firefox-bin
 
Old 06-07-2008, 09:00 PM   #4
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Hah, I like how it displays "Computer OS: Linux" (presumably from the browser UA) and then still scans all the .dll's and .exe's

I'm using FF3 and it's not blocked by the anti-phishing thing.
 
  


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