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destrekor

destrekor

Lifer
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jhu said:
I always browse for pr0n and w4r3z with OpenBSD.
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I've had no problem with my Firefox + Adblock + NoScript + Microsoft Security Essentials package. Hell, I've been through numerous security suites, doesn't even matter. Between the first three, I literally have to download something to have a chance of getting anything.
And I've apparently browsed sites that are known to be infected. Often I get a big red splash page in Firefox telling me "You DO NOT WANT this site!", and I'm like... "aww, the link was so promising. Damn. :(" Just not worth the risk to find out if it's a false-positive imho. I like my system perfectly clean like it is now. And I cannot begin to count the number of shady and guaranteed corrupt websites I've been to and go to... just takes the right software prep to make browsing almost entirely safe. Still have to be vigilant, but in years of using this combination, I haven't gotten a thing.

I use both Firefox and Chrome. Chrome is reserved for more or less quick easy access to typical websites I frequent, as the software is snappy. Firefox is my juggernaut with all my customizations, add-ons, security considerations, etc.
 
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RagingBITCH

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I think that was more flash than Firefox. I got hit by that "XP Guardian" crap on Grooveshark...turns out my flash wasn't as updated as it should have been. Lame.
 
SSSnail

SSSnail

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Codewiz said:
Chrome builds on the OS settings. Just like Chrome on Mac, it will use the proxy settings that are set by the operating system.

Why recreate what is already available from a settings point of view. Chrome also uses the Microsoft certificate stores on Windows.

It is one thing that pisses me off about Firefox. You have to maintain two different certificate stores. Two different network settings. It is duplicate work. Chrome uses what is already available. If it needs more then it goes above and beyond it when needed.
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Firefox doesn't use share any settings with IE; furthermore, it has complete separate settings for everything (at least change the skin for it so it's not so obvious...). The window that Chrome opens up is obviously IE settings for cache, downloads, security, etc... so it can't just be using the IE Options interface for proxy. I'm wondering how many DLL's are shared between Chrome and IE.

My last company, there was this piece of software that relied on Windows DLL's to operate originally, but it ended up scrapped and the devs wrote their own DLL's for the software, that's what I call "from the ground up".

I may have to fire up some stuffs to track DLL's dependencies, but if you don't see me report back, it's probably because I'm too lazy to care.
 
OILFIELDTRASH

OILFIELDTRASH

Lifer
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Are you really surprised you got a virus at a torrent site?
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DrPizza

DrPizza

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This seems like another place to repeat what my IT guy at work told us last week:

Warning - there is a new method for installing the virus mentioned in this thread. There's a pop-up window. When you click the "x" in the top right corner to close that pop-up, they've managed to make that part of the pop-up the place to click to "sure, go ahead. I give you permission to install this software."
At work, we've been instructed to immediately cut the power to our system when we see such a popup. (Sorry, I don't have a screen capture of the particular popup to place here so you know what to watch out for.)
It was either last Thursday or Friday that our AV protection had an update to protect from that attack.
 
lxskllr

lxskllr

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DrPizza said:
This seems like another place to repeat what my IT guy at work told us last week:

Warning - there is a new method for installing the virus mentioned in this thread. There's a pop-up window. When you click the "x" in the top right corner to close that pop-up, they've managed to make that part of the pop-up the place to click to "sure, go ahead. I give you permission to install this software."
At work, we've been instructed to immediately cut the power to our system when we see such a popup. (Sorry, I don't have a screen capture of the particular popup to place here so you know what to watch out for.)
It was either last Thursday or Friday that our AV protection had an update to protect from that attack.
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A more elegant solution would be to kill the process in Task Manager.
 
DrPizza

DrPizza

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lxskllr said:
A more elegant solution would be to kill the process in Task Manager.
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Well, of course - that was IT's solution. Don't forget, IT needs a solution simple enough so that all of the users can follow it. "Kill the process in the Task Manager? Ohhh, that's too many steps. I'll just click the x and claim I didn't. Let them do their jobs cleaning my machine." You're forgetting about those types of people.
 
Miklebud

Miklebud

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The only thing holding me back from using Chrome exclusively, is the lack of the Stumble Upon toolbar. :(
 
lxskllr

lxskllr

No Lifer
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DrPizza said:
Well, of course - that was IT's solution. Don't forget, IT needs a solution simple enough so that all of the users can follow it. "Kill the process in the Task Manager? Ohhh, that's too many steps. I'll just click the x and claim I didn't. Let them do their jobs cleaning my machine." You're forgetting about those types of people.
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I wonder how hard it would be to make a rescue button for people like that. A big red button on the desktop, that kills all non essential processes(IT could setup a whitelist for what's essential), and restarts Explorer. Of course, you'd probably have tards pressing it all the time, and losing work :^/
 
pyonir

pyonir

Lifer
Dec 18, 2001
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Fritzo said:
Wow, it's amazing how sensitive people are to ads. I've never used an ad blocker and just learned to filter advertisements out. I don't even see them anymore. Seems like people spend way too much energy trying to filter out something harmless.
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I use Firefox with Adblock Plus. I spend no energy filtering out ads...because I never see them. I completely forget about them in fact. I was at a friends house and he was on Facebook with IE and no adblock. I barely recognized the site because I'd never seen ads on it. lol
 
TridenT

TridenT

Lifer
Sep 4, 2006
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A fraction of a second is still a fraction of a second... On Firefox there is no fraction.. They just don't load...

It impacts my browsing experience A LOT.
 
destrekor

destrekor

Lifer
Nov 18, 2005
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pyonir said:
I use Firefox with Adblock Plus. I spend no energy filtering out ads...because I never see them. I completely forget about them in fact. I was at a friends house and he was on Facebook with IE and no adblock. I barely recognized the site because I'd never seen ads on it. lol
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Sometimes I forget what most of the internet actually looks like with ads. :D

Then I decide I want to load up the page real quick in Chrome instead of waiting for a recently-closed Firefox browser session to load up again (many many many tabs), and then I look at the site in Chrome and realize I should just wait for firefox to load. :D
 
boomhower

boomhower

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My boss called me today and he got hit with the same virus as well. Thing was a bitch to get rid of.
 
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Fox5

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Microsoft security essentials seems able to blast the virus.

Also, I'd say stuff like this is why corporate environments should seriously consider Linux if possible (don't give the users admin rights to install anything!), but I have a feeling if Linux had significant market share, these bastards would figure out a way to infect it anyway.
Though I'd bet many of the windows computers infected didn't have proper security policies either.
 
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