Evil Java Scripts / Pop Up Installs

Aiken · #1 August 2nd, 2004, 10:31 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
Why send him to the German site for AdAware? They have a US site, they are a US company!

Lavasoft Inc.
.....Established in Germany in the mid 1990's
.....Incorporated in July 2002
.....Headquartered in Sweden
http://www.lavasoft.de/about/

Anyway, all these hax0rz's tricks are targeted against IE vulnerabilities, so the major advice is "do not use Internet Explorer". This will solve 80% of problems.

[ August 02, 2004, 21:34: Message edited by: aiken ]

David E. Gervais · #2 August 2nd, 2004, 11:43 PM

Ahem! I,.. 'AM' Silly. Most people have a funny-bone, I have a silly-bone.

Cheers!

P.S. BTW it IS just my silly opinion that Firefox has little to offer over Mozilla. (feel free to list the multitude of features that I wouldn't use anyway.) But in my defense, if the 'added features' are not something I need or would use then Firefox is a useless upgrade. Besides Mozilla is working fantastic. why would I want to change or upgrade something that is not broken or otherwise 1000% better than IE?

Nuf said,

Katchoo · #3 August 3rd, 2004, 12:58 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by David E. Gervais:
P.S. BTW it IS just my silly opinion that Firefox has little to offer over Mozilla. (feel free to list the multitude of features that I wouldn't use anyway.) But in my defense, if the 'added features' are not something I need or would use then Firefox is a useless upgrade. Besides Mozilla is working fantastic. why would I want to change or upgrade something that is not broken or otherwise 1000% better than IE?

Nuf said,

The only difference I've noted between Firefox and the fuller Mozilla suite is that the Mozilla suite doesn't allow the use of the middle mouse button (ie: click down on the mouse wheel), which is usually good for rapidly scrolling up and down a screen. Maybe it's just with my mouse, but for some reason Mozilla won't allow it, but Firefox does. Go figure.

Baron Munchausen · #4 August 3rd, 2004, 04:23 AM

The two browsers in in fact different programs. It's just the 'Gecko' HTML engine that is shared between them. So, it's not surprising that there are features they don't have in common.

Baron Munchausen · #5 August 4th, 2004, 05:33 PM

It's here! Mozilla 1.7.2 has been posted on the main Mozilla.org site! Whether you can get it now or have to wait for the downloading frenzy to subside in a few days remains to be seen.

Edit:

I'm using it now. Got both the Mozilla 1.7.2 and the Sun Java 1.4.2_05 updates installed. 50+ megabytes of stuff. Time for a defrag.

[ August 04, 2004, 18:52: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]