Linux and Spywares - lack of reading

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Thu Feb 17 05:44:14 UTC 2005


On Wednesday 16 February 2005 20:02, Robert Storey wrote:

>Let me add to what I wrote above. You can (and should) turn off the
>internationalization feature in Mozilla and Firefox.
>
>"The attack can be disabled in Firefox and Mozilla by setting
>'network.enableIDN' to false in the browser's configuration (enter
>about:config in the address bar to access the configuration
> functions). The Mozilla development team today made this the
> default setting. Users who want IDN support will be able to turn it
> on, but will be warned about the risks involved."

I've done this, to copies of both that are about a month old.  Is this 
really sufficient?

> -- Robert

Thanks for posting the fix Robert.

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