Linux and Spywares - lack of reading

David Curry dsccable at comcast.net
Wed Feb 16 01:31:24 UTC 2005


jdow wrote:

>From: "David Curry" <dsccable at comcast.net>
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>>jdow wrote:
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>>>Of course you do know of the recent exploits found for Mozilla, aren't
>>>you, Brian? What's this "No antivirus needed" I hear about for Linux?
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>>>{^_-}   The quibbler.
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>>"Recent exploits found for Mozilla" is news here.  Care to elaborate or 
>>point me in the right direction?
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>Ran across it in the Dartmouth IRIA news summaries yesterday. It's
>scrolled off. It appears to affect the core of Mozilla so it affects
>FireFox as well. It should appear in the CERT advisories.
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>It appears Mozilla is getting more attention from crackers now that
>it is starting to command a noticeable market share. It's a matter of
>time before more serious items appear. Of course, without things like
>ActiveX it's a little harder to mash a Linux machine than a Windows
>machine.
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Thanks.




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