 Security Issue With Mozilla Based Browsers, Read the story onAstahost.com |
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 Mar 9 2005, 06:32 PM
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Administrator  Group: Members Posts: 377 Joined: 28-December 04 From: USA Member No.: 2,992  |
I'm not going to post the same issue / solution on both forums. If you have a Mozilla based browser it would be in your best interest to read this story.
Browsers affected by this exploit are: Mozilla 1.7.x Mozilla Firefox 0.x Mozilla Firefox 1.x Mozilla Thunderbird 0.x Mozilla Thunderbird 1.x Security Issue in Mozilla based browsers Thank You Nils |
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Mar 9 2005, 07:12 PM
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Member [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 79 Joined: 12-January 05 Member No.: 3,251 |
Admins: I posted this at astahost as well, but wanted to make sure people here saw it, if I shouldn't have, please delete this.
For those of you with Firefox, simply updating to version 1.01 fixes the problem. If you have version 1.0, a red arrow pointing up in a circle should appear on the toolbar towards the right side. If you click it, it will allow you to easily update. |
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Mar 9 2005, 08:12 PM
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Administrator Group: Members Posts: 377 Joined: 28-December 04 From: USA Member No.: 2,992 |
It's OK to post both places
 I did, security is important and you can post in both forums if you like to.Did you test that the new version of FF is secure? are you on that version of FF. Nils |
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Mar 9 2005, 09:59 PM
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Member [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 79 Joined: 12-January 05 Member No.: 3,251 |
I did the spoof test and didn't have a problem becuase I'm on FF 1.01, so I finished reading all of the articles to see if it was the 1.01 update or something else that kept me from having the problem. The update works. Do you know if it does it in IE as well, because I kind of want to see it.
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Mar 9 2005, 10:02 PM
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Administrator Group: Members Posts: 377 Joined: 28-December 04 From: USA Member No.: 2,992 |
This is one exploit that don't work in IE so 1 for IE and 1 million for the rest.
Nils |
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Mar 9 2005, 11:38 PM
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Member [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 79 Joined: 12-January 05 Member No.: 3,251 |
Actually, IE has 2, not 1. Since IE used ot be the most popular browser (I don't know if it is anymore or not), there are some javascripts or other scripts or miniapps written for IE compatibility, but no one bothered to check other compatibility, so they don't work in some browsers. For FF versions < 1.0, this was a problem (at least for me). And to make it worse, most of them are on business pages, not personal pages. Stupid business. But since other browsers are fixing this problem, maybe we'll make it worth .5 instead, so IE has 1.5
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Mar 10 2005, 12:47 AM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 287 Joined: 23-February 05 Member No.: 3,945 |
Wow, thanks for posting this NilsC, I use Mozilla... I just got the patch thingy. I am going to test to see if this happens in Web Devil, I hope not, I don't know how to fix it if it happens in Web Devil...
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Mar 10 2005, 12:57 AM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 287 Joined: 23-February 05 Member No.: 3,945 |
Ok, nothing happened, the alert mechanism caught even though it didn't apear though, it was cool, when Web Devil is finished and out of beta it's all I'm gonna use....
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Mar 10 2005, 04:25 AM
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Sinthetik kreatoR Group: Members Posts: 907 Joined: 31-August 04 From: CA, USA Member No.: 968 |
Well I haven't tried FF 1.0.1 yet so I might dl it tonight and see if I like it any more than I did it's first version. I really didn't see anything different other then it really didn't load images that well.
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