... It redirected me to a rogue site at antivirus2009-freeverscan.com which made my browser window really small and spawned a popup. When I clicked cancel on the popup my browser window became huge and there was a page which claimed to be scanning my machine for viruses. It said it had found critical...

In article <alpine.OSX.1.10.0808121119351.3103@hagrid.ewd.goldmark.org>, Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody@goldmark.org> wrote: Despite the overhead, it really is time to move to DNSsec. And to kill purge javascript from the web. If we lowered the speed limits on North American freeways to 30 mph there'd be something like 80%% less fatalities, and we'd save a shitload of gasoline, but...

In <02f6436d$0$23762$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com>, Warren Oates wrote: In article <paul.sture.nospam-5207B0.09022810082008@mac.sture.ch>, "P. Sture" <paul.sture.nospam@hispeed.ch> wrote: Did you have Javascript enabled? This DNS bug is all the more reason to disable Javascript IMO. That's overly paranoid. Many of us here have criticized Microsoft over the years for ...

In <paul.sture.nospam-5207B0.09022810082008@mac.sture.ch>, P. Sture wrote: Does anyone know if DNS poisoning will fool the Firefox NoScript plugin, for example if a site you have marked as trusted for JS is hijacked? Yes, it will be fooled. The NoScript whitelists by domain names. And the DNS exploit means that the domain names themselves can't be trusted. Despite the overhead, ...

In article <1iljjn4.1m0cmka1ihk1lsN%%hylton.boothroyd@null.c0m.invalid>, hylton.boothroyd@null.c0m.invalid (Hylton Boothroyd) wrote: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote: In article <1ilj0wp.9y1q51c8hiaqN%%hylton.boothroyd@null.c0m.invalid>, hylton.boothroyd@null.c0m.invalid (Hylton Boothroyd) wrote: Weeks and weeks after installing it along with Firefox 3 (...

Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote: In article <1ilj0wp.9y1q51c8hiaqN%%hylton.boothroyd@null.c0m.invalid>, hylton.boothroyd@null.c0m.invalid (Hylton Boothroyd) wrote: Weeks and weeks after installing it along with Firefox 3 (and agreeing to updates as they are announced) it still hasn't done anything. Then you must have inadvertantly dismissed the dialog box ...

In article <1ilj0wp.9y1q51c8hiaqN%%hylton.boothroyd@null.c0m.invalid>, hylton.boothroyd@null.c0m.invalid (Hylton Boothroyd) wrote: I don't see how you get to the charmed existence that you seem to imply is just an installation away. It's simple: I paid attention to the onscreen messages during installation. ; ) -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than to me, ...

In article <1ilj0wp.9y1q51c8hiaqN%%hylton.boothroyd@null.c0m.invalid>, hylton.boothroyd@null.c0m.invalid (Hylton Boothroyd) wrote: Jolly Roger, in response to (While you may think that running Firefox just to try out AdBlock Plus is more work than it's worth, I'm pretty sure if you actually experienced true ad-free browsing for any length of time ...

+ Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com>: Anyway, the W3C fascists have created new HTML specs that mandate javascript everywhere. http://www.w3.org/ That's wonderfully non-specific. Are you referring to HTML 5? http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/introduction.html This specification does not require support of any particular network transport protocols, style sheet language, ...

Jolly Roger, in response to (While you may think that running Firefox just to try out AdBlock Plus is more work than it's worth, I'm pretty sure if you actually experienced true ad-free browsing for any length of time you'd soon find you can't or won't do without it. ; ) Thank you! ... It's just that the adblockplus geek site doesn't explain in any...