Dunkan
join:2008-03-18
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Re: Secure browsers
Firefox addons has dozen of vulnerabilities and
also firefox launches very slowly with many addons installed |
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Davebo_
join:2002-11-19
Canada | Proof - right now.... |
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Cudni
La Merma - Los De Aca
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Someshire
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said by Dunkan  :Firefox addons has dozen of vulnerabilities and also firefox launches very slowly with many addons installed None of the ones listed in this thread here have known vulnerabilities and with them installed FF will load as it usually does
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Dunkan
join:2008-03-18
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said by Davebo_ :Proof - right now.... »www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2138984,00.asp,
»paranoia.dubfire.net/2007/05/rem···fox.html
and many many hacker web sites will prove to u |
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Cudni
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Someshire
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| If you look in your second link you will see
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Users of popular Firefox extensions such as NoScript, Greasemonkey, and AdBlock Plus have nothing to worry about.
..."
and from the 1st link
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The attack requires that other significant compromises exist on the network—specifically that the user's DNS server be compromised
.."
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javaMan
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join:2002-07-15
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| said by Cudni :If you look in your second link you will see "... Users of popular Firefox extensions such as NoScript, Greasemonkey, and AdBlock Plus have nothing to worry about. ..." and from the 1st link "... The attack requires that other significant compromises exist on the network—specifically that the user's DNS server be compromised .." Cudni Please don't obscure the issue with facts.
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Psicop
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If you want to feel better: Ablock Plus and especially NoScript update almost daily in this box.
Edit: The extensions mentioned in the link you provided are basically virus magnets. I wouldn't touch any of those even with a 10 foot pole.
A different story is clicking on a "MySpace fake invite" as I did not many months ago. In that instance you are basically "pollo frito." |
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Cudni
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said by javaMan :Please don't obscure the issue with facts. I will not obscure the issue with facts.
I will not obscure the issue with facts.
I will not obscure the issue with facts.
I will not obscure the issue with facts.
I will not obscure the issue with facts.
I will not obscure the issue with facts.
I will not obscure the issue with facts.
I will not obscure the issue with facts.
I will not obscure the issue with facts.
Cudni
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Davebo_
join:2002-11-19
Canada
| reply to Dunkan
PCmag (lol) and a blog entry, eh?
NEXT!
In fairness, all browsers are insecure. Firefox, configured properly, is the most secure browser out there IMO. Opera is pretty decent as well, if you can get used to it. |
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La Luna
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| reply to Dunkan
First of all, both articles are almost a year old.
Secondly, don't believe ALL the FUD you read on the "internet".
Thirdly, use the correct extensions and DON'T use the incorrect ones (those not downloaded directly from Mozilla, as also mentioned) with Fx.
I don't know if that vulnerability even still exists, it may have been patched by now. Not to mention one of the following situations ALSO needs to be true for this vulnerability to work: "this possibility exists whenever the user cannot trust their domain name server (DNS) or network connection. Examples of this include public wireless networks, and users connected to compromised home routers".
There is NO browser that is 100% "secure", there is only MORE secure. And that would be Fx, especially with the right extensions.
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chrisretusn
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| reply to javaMan
said by javaMan :Please don't obscure the issue with facts. Or old information.  |
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