how-to block ads
|
Mele20
Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
| Re: Firefox 3 honors Windows Security Zones... Thank you for the article.
I don't think Fx has any business following some setting in IE. That makes no sense to me. They are COMPLETELY SEPARATE browsers and should have nothing in common.
As for forcing your AV to scan your download that also is not a good idea. I can just see all the problems that are going to happen because of this when Fx has the wrong path to the scanner, etc. and since this is brand new in Fx3 users won't even suspect this as the causen for their problem as they won't know that Fx is forcing scanning after download.
These are reasons why I continue to use Fx 1.5 on my host computer. I don't need Mozilla pulling a Microsoft and trying to boss me around. 
--
"The same ferocity that our founders devoted to protect the freedom and independence of the press is now appropriate for our defense of the freedom of the internet. The stakes are the same: the survival of our Republic". Al Gore, The Assault on Reason | |
|  BandHeight
join:2004-08-30
Portland, TX
| Re: Firefox 3 honors Windows Security Zones... said by Mele20  :I don't think Fx has any business following some setting in IE. That makes no sense to me. They are COMPLETELY SEPARATE browsers and should have nothing in common. Well, the download / execute policy setting, though identified by MS as an IE setting in some of the GUIs where the policy can be changed, is actually a policy of the OS that was intended to be followed by other clients (email apps, browsers, etc.) that run on the system. See the MSDN article on IAttachmentExecute::CheckPolicy Method here:
»msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library···85).aspx
Yes, Mozilla could have opted to not use that particular interface, but they seem to have their sights on business / office environments where admins expect the policy to be respected by installed software.
I have no real problem with them respecting the settings, but they did not really provide an elegant solution for the user to ignore the policy when desired. Pointing the user to a GUI that associates the settings with an IE icon (as well as being mixed in with other policies that FF does not adhere to) so that the settings can be adjusted is very, very clumsy.
said by Mele20 :As for forcing your AV to scan your download that also is not a good idea. At least it has an about:config option that can be changed. I don't really care what the default is.
said by Mele20 :These are reasons why I continue to use Fx 1.5 on my host computer. I don't need Mozilla pulling a Microsoft and trying to boss me around. Well, what will likely happen (per the usual progression) is that we'll be using FF 5 and you will, by then, have switched to FF 3. Why not just give your heart to it now instead of playing so hard to get all the time.  | |
| | Mele20
Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
| Re: Firefox 3 honors Windows Security Zones... said by BandHeight :Well, the download / execute policy setting, though identified by MS as an IE setting in some of the GUIs where the policy can be changed, is actually a policy of the OS that was intended to be followed by other clients (email apps, browsers, etc.) that run on the system. Yes, Mozilla could have opted to not use that particular interface, but they seem to have their sights on business / office environments where admins expect the policy to be respected by installed software. I have no real problem with them respecting the settings, but they did not really provide an elegant solution for the user to ignore the policy when desired. Pointing the user to a GUI that associates the settings with an IE icon (as well as being mixed in with other policies that FF does not adhere to) so that the settings can be adjusted is very, very clumsy. Well, what will likely happen (per the usual progression) is that we'll be using FF 5 and you will, by then, have switched to FF 3. Why not just give your heart to it now instead of playing so hard to get all the time. That article doesn't seem very relevant. It is talking about email attachments. Besides, IE has always been very unsafe as far as downloads go as you can RUN the download. In Fx you are REQUIRED to save to disk which is much safer. So, I don't see where Microsoft can get off telling Fx users how to handle downloads. That's just crap.
As for me embracing Fx3 "now"...damn good thing I have 1.5 on the host machine. Fx3 on my XP Pro SP2 virtual machine appears completely borked (although who knows it might work tomorrow). It can't load any pages...it tries and never finishes loading any site. Who knows what I did of the myriad of pref changes, etc. that borked it. I am just stunned at how much has to be changed in Fx3 to make it usable. I thought Fx2 had to have too many changes but it pales next to Fx3 and all the changes that must be made. Fx 1.5 is almost pefect right out of the box. I haven't booted my Vista virtual machine today so I don't know if Fx3 is ok on it or not. I booted up the virtual machine that has Fx2 and it loads pages just fine so it not some problem with VMWare rather something I did must have really messed Fx3 up and I've changed so much I'll probably never be able to figure out what is the culprit.
1.5 is worked so hard by me and I usually have 50 or more tabs open, have over 150 saved tab sessions, been using the same profile for a long time and yet it just keeps going and TBE Tree view works perfectly on it. The new TBE (that is split now into several extensions) on 3 has some problems and isn't like the old TBE. 1.5 uses Spellbound. That awful crap spell checker in 3 drives me nuts. I have it unchecked in options yet it still insists on checking the spelling. I hate it. I want Spellbound. I only see a need to upgrade some machine of mine to 3 because I am afraid my banks will stop supporting 1.5. They don't work with Opera and I hate to have to use IE6.
--
"The same ferocity that our founders devoted to protect the freedom and independence of the press is now appropriate for our defense of the freedom of the internet. The stakes are the same: the survival of our Republic". Al Gore, The Assault on Reason | |
| | | 
vicks
@anonymouse.org
| Re: Firefox 3 honors Windows Security Zones... said by Mele20 : IE has always been very unsafe as far as downloads go as you can RUN the download. Since Windows XP SP2, when you run a file downloaded via IE6, the user receives a warning about it...
... Mozilla added this warning just a few days ago with Firefox 3 release. Mozilla is in late!!!! | |
| | | | 
Cudni
La Merma - Vigilado
Premium,MVM
join:2003-12-20
Someshire
| Re: Firefox 3 honors Windows Security Zones... said by vicks :... Mozilla added this warning just a few days ago with Firefox 3 release. Mozilla is in late!!!! are you sure? FF 3.0 first version you are using?
Cudni
--
"Mercifully, he hit him with the soft end of the pistol."
Help yourself so God can help you.
Microsoft MVP, 2006 - 2008 | |
| | | | |
vicks
@anonymouse.org
| Re: Firefox 3 honors Windows Security Zones... said by Cudni :are you sure? yes I'm sure. All downloads in Firefox 2 are NOT marked with an alternated data stream (Windows Security Zones), so when the user clicks on an exe saved by Firefox 2, no warning is received. This feature is just added only with Firefox 3.0. IE6 has this feature since WinXP SP2 Mozilla is in late!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | |
| | | | | |
Cudni
La Merma - Vigilado
Premium,MVM
join:2003-12-20
Someshire | Re: Firefox 3 honors Windows Security Zones... it is good to be sure, what happens when you click to download .exe in FF 2 ?
Cudni | |
| | | | | | |
vicks
@anonymouse.org
| Re: Firefox 3 honors Windows Security Zones... said by Cudni :it is good to be sure, what happens when you click to download .exe in FF 2 ? You didn't understand what is Windows Security Zone.
Try these steps:
1. download an exe with Firefox 2
2. save to disk
3. run it
result: when you run it, no warning is shown because the file has not marked by an alternate data stream
Since XP SP2, Internet Explorer 6 marks all downloaded files by an alternate data stream which tells it comes from Internet zone and so Windows shows this warning:
 | |
| | | | | | | |
Cudni
La Merma - Vigilado
Premium,MVM
join:2003-12-20
Someshire
| Re: Firefox 3 honors Windows Security Zones... said by vicks :You didn't understand what is Windows Security Zone. Try these steps: 1. download an exe with Firefox 2 2. save to disk 3. run it result: when you run it, no warning is shown because the file has not marked by an alternate data stream I understood perfectly which is the part you missed
Cudni
--
"Mercifully, he hit him with the soft end of the pistol."
Help yourself so God can help you.
Microsoft MVP, 2006 - 2008 | |
| | | | | | | | Mele20
Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
| said by vicks :said by Cudni :it is good to be sure, what happens when you click to download .exe in FF 2 ? You didn't understand what is Windows Security Zone. Try these steps: 1. download an exe with Firefox 2 2. save to disk 3. run it result: when you run it, no warning is shown because the file has not marked by an alternate data stream Since XP SP2, Internet Explorer 6 marks all downloaded files by an alternate data stream which tells it comes from Internet zone and so Windows shows this warning: What about those of us who have a Shell extension that removes ALL Alternate Data Streams? I would never allow any ADS on any file. I immediately right click check any file I download for ADS and the extension removes the ADS. Viruses and other crap can hide in ADS. Why would Microsoft be so stupid as to use a known hiding place for malware to mark a file? UGH. (I don't know if the Shell extension works on Vista. I think I will try and see. I have downloaded almost nothing to Vista. I just grab from the network what I need).
--
"The same ferocity that our founders devoted to protect the freedom and independence of the press is now appropriate for our defense of the freedom of the internet. The stakes are the same: the survival of our Republic". Al Gore, The Assault on Reason | |
| | | | Mele20
Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
| Yeah...that is Fx3 going backwards. In earlier versions you could not run it rather your ONLY choice was to download to disk in the obvious hope that the user would then scan it with their AV before running it. I suppose Fx3 changed it because the user's AV will be forced to scan it by Fx after downloading and before running. Of course, the user will just turn that off in preferences ...just as they ran it after downloading to disk in earlier versions without having their AV scan it.
You can lead a horse to water but you can't force it to drink. Same with people. I don't think any of this "forcing" should be happening. None of these things should be by default. (I recall all the brouhaha surrounding the decision some time ago to force download to disk and I was against it. I think folks should be able to choose to poison themselves if they want). There should be lots of options and then users should choose the ones they want because they are going to do that anyway. You cannot force security on users. That doesn't work. All you do is end up creating "hackers" or you lose market share as most people resent being forced to do something they don't like.
--
"The same ferocity that our founders devoted to protect the freedom and independence of the press is now appropriate for our defense of the freedom of the internet. The stakes are the same: the survival of our Republic". Al Gore, The Assault on Reason | |
| | | BandHeight
join:2004-08-30
Portland, TX
| said by Mele20 :That article doesn't seem very relevant. It is talking about email attachments. Besides, IE has always been very unsafe as far as downloads go as you can RUN the download. In Fx you are REQUIRED to save to disk which is much safer. So, I don't see where Microsoft can get off telling Fx users how to handle downloads. That's just crap. Do you think I just made that up? That I dug through the MSDN and picked that article at random?
It is exactly relevant because that is the interface at the core of the issue being discussed.
MS did not tell FF users how to handle downloads. They provided a programming interface that the Mozilla team chose to use.
Please see this bug report where the idea to use IAttachmentExecute was initially introduced for FF 3, specifically Firefox 3 beta4 (see especially comments 8-15):
»https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408153
Also, for Cudni and the rest following the discussion about where this behavior originally appeared in Windows products and to get a glimpse at (some) of the original thinking on possibly using the IAE interface in FF (goes back to 2004):
»https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=236771
said by Mele20 :As for me embracing Fx3 "now"...damn good thing I have 1.5 on the host machine. Fx3 on my XP Pro SP2 virtual machine appears completely borked ... Of course it is. I wouldn't have expected you to describe a successful user-experience.
But those of us who have it running perfectly on multiple OSes (even without the unbelievable amount of changes you claim must be made for it to be "usable"), we will just continue on. | |
| | | | Mele20
Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
1 edit | Re: Firefox 3 honors Windows Security Zones... Thank you for the link to the bug report. That was very interesting reading.
I still don't get it because there are no ADS on downloads from Fx3. I just downloaded Eicar, both the .exe and one of the zips, and saved them to my downloaded programs folder. Then I right click scanned them for ADS and they have none. I ran them both and Fx didn't popup any warning. I have no AV installed at the moment on this XP Pro guest machine so I was able to download the .exe one which ordinarily my AV would stop me before the download started. So, where are these ADS tags from Fx? They are not on any downloads. This Streams Shell Extension finds other ADS so I have no reason to think that Fx has somehow managed to hide the ADS from this extension. (I have not yet tried to install the extension on Vista. It may not work there). I suppose I can grab one of my myriad of programs (off my host...easy to do with XP...Vista is one huge headache for grabbing files on the network) that find ADS and run one of them in case Streams Shell Extension is somehow missing these. Ieven changed the settings in IE8 to allow unsafe downloads an Fx3 doesn't object to my running eicar.com or opening the eicar zip files. So, evidently, this feature is not working in Fx3.
Oh, btw, Fx3 works fine today on my guest XP machine. I'm on it now. It loaded all tabs very rapidly and blazes at Mozillazine forums. It loaded a preview of a post there so fast I was amazed and also posted it and then took me to the post incredibly fast. So, I have no idea what was wrong yesterday. I shut that machine down last night and booted it up again a little while ago. Maybe Windows needed restarting for some unclear reason. I'm going to use this machine now for awhile and see if, after a few hours, it happens again or not.
edit: I shut down IE with the risky setting still in place. Just now, I started IE8 again and got a gigantic warning telling me not to surf the internet with such a risky setting. So, why is Fx not reacting to that change? I don't think it is working on Fx unless Eicar files are exempted from the ADS?
--
"The same ferocity that our founders devoted to protect the freedom and independence of the press is now appropriate for our defense of the freedom of the internet. The stakes are the same: the survival of our Republic". Al Gore, The Assault on Reason | |
| | | | | 
Grail Knight
Who Dares Wins
Premium
join:2003-05-31 | Re: Firefox 3 honors Windows Security Zones... Did that user.js spelling setting work for you? | |
| | | | | | Mele20
Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI | Re: Firefox 3 honors Windows Security Zones... I haven't done it. I want the spell checker to stay turned off until I want it. I don't want to do without a spell checker entirely. So, I've been undecided about what to do. | |
| | | | | | | Mele20
Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
| Re: Firefox 3 honors Windows Security Zones... I took the time just now to install Avira free on Fx3 on my virtual XP machine. I left the dangerous download setting for IE. I changed the setting for browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone back to true. Avira wouldn't let me play with Eicar at all..not even the zip ones. So, I instead downloaded a couple of applications and Fx never tried to start my AV, never tried to stop me from downloading because I have those unsafe settings for IE, never warned me about anything to do with the downloads. I checked them for ADS and there is no ADS tagging. I even tried opening the file directly from the download manager (instead of going to the containing folder as I ordinarily would so I could scan it) and Fx let it open directly and this was while IE has the bad settings enabled.
So, these features are not working for me at all.
Oh, so far Fx3 on the XP virtual machine is working fine...I still have no idea what was the matter last night.
--
"The same ferocity that our founders devoted to protect the freedom and independence of the press is now appropriate for our defense of the freedom of the internet. The stakes are the same: the survival of our Republic". Al Gore, The Assault on Reason | |
| | | | | | | | BandHeight
join:2004-08-30
Portland, TX
1 edit | Re: Firefox 3 honors Windows Security Zones...
FF-Streams.png | 
IE7-DLDenied.png | 
FF-DLDenied.png |
said by Mele20 :So, these features are not working for me at all. Test 1
- OS: Win XP SP3
- Storage Filesystem: NTFS
- Policy Set To Medium (3)
I downloaded the FF 3 installation file from Mozilla using four different applications:
- IE7 SP3 - File saved as: Firefox Setup 3.0-DLIE.exe
- FF 3.0 - File saved as: Firefox Setup 3.0-DLFF.exe
- Opera 9.5 - File saved as: Firefox Setup 3.0-DLOP.exe
- GetRight 5.2d - File saved as: Firefox Setup 3.0-DLGR.exe
Results (image posted: FF-Streams.png)
- IE7 - Added ADS; execution prompts user
- FF 3.0 - Added ADS; execution prompts user
- Opera 9.5 - Did not add ADS; execution proceeds without prompt
- GetRight 5.2d - Did not add ADS; execution proceeds without prompt
Test 2
- OS: Win XP SP3
- Storage Filesystem: NTFS
- General Policy Set To Medium (3) But FF Download Site Added To Restricted Zone (High - Zone 4)
I downloaded the FF 3 installation file from Mozilla using two different applications:
- IE7 SP3 - File saved as: N/A
- FF 3.0 - File saved as: Firefox Setup 3.0-DLFF-Restricted.exe
Results (images posted - IE7-DLDenied.png and FF-DLDenied.png):
- IE7 SP3 - Clicking the download link immediately alerts user with messsage box, "Your current security settings do not allow this file to be downloaded".
- FF 3.0 - Clicking the download link presents "Save As ..." dialog and then launches the FF DL Manager after clicking "Save". However, the FF DL Manager halts the download, and the DL Manager listing shows the file name with the following message: "This download has been blocked by your Security Zone Policy -- mozilla.org".
By the way, the file and partial file are left on the file system; file size of each is zero bytes (that probably needs to be cleaned up automatically?). | |
| | | | | | | | | Mele20
Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
| Re: Firefox 3 honors Windows Security Zones... I don't understand your point. YOU had to add the ADS to get Fx to react. Soo....?
Plus, I thought Fx reacted if you had INsecure settings on IE not secure settings. Why would Fx stop you if the IE settings are secure? It should stop you only if the IE settings are insecure.
--
"The same ferocity that our founders devoted to protect the freedom and independence of the press is now appropriate for our defense of the freedom of the internet. The stakes are the same: the survival of our Republic". Al Gore, The Assault on Reason | |
| | | | | | | | | | 
Ctrl Alt Del
Premium
join:2002-02-18
| Re: Firefox 3 honors Windows Security Zones... said by Mele20 :I don't understand your point. YOU had to add the ADS to get Fx to react. Soo....? Plus, I thought Fx reacted if you had INsecure settings on IE not secure settings. Why would Fx stop you if the IE settings are secure? It should stop you only if the IE settings are insecure. Firefox 3.0 for Windows now uses the same feature that Internet Explorer uses when you download a file from the internet. Firefox tags a downloaded file which then tells Windows to show the prompt. He did not add any ADS, that was Firefox that added the ADS.
--
less talk, more music | |
| | | | | | | | | | Mele20
Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
| Re: Firefox 3 honors Windows Security Zones... Auto quote isn't working.
I understand what Bandheight said. My reply is that it is not true that Fx3 is placing ADS on downloads. It is not doing for me. Therefore, this feature does not work. Bandheight has Service Pack 3 for XP. I have SP2. Maybe Service Pack 3 is required for this to work? If so, that is another good reason to not install SP3...getting too bossy.
--
"The same ferocity that our founders devoted to protect the freedom and independence of the press is now appropriate for our defense of the freedom of the internet. The stakes are the same: the survival of our Republic". Al Gore, The Assault on Reason | |
| | | | | | | | | | BandHeight
join:2004-08-30
Portland, TX
2 edits | Re: Firefox 3 honors Windows Security Zones...
FF 3.0 Adds Zone Tags In Win XP SP 2 Just Like In SP 3 |
said by Mele20 :Auto quote isn't working. I just auto-quoted. It never ceases to amaze me how many things don't work for you.
said by Mele20 :I understand what Bandheight said. No comment.
said by Mele20 :My reply is that it is not true that Fx3 is placing ADS on downloads. Really?
said by Mele20 :It is not doing for me. Of course not.
Please understand saying that something is not true (which makes me what by extension?) just because it doesn't work for you is insulting to say the least. I did not fabricate the FF 3 functionality (nor did anyone else in this thread for that matter), and I did not fabricate the test results and screen-shots I posted here.
Edit:
And because I can (but shouldn't have), I tested Win XP SP2, and of course as I expected, the ADS tags were added by FF 3.0 just as they were in Win XP SP3. See image above. For the record, my SP 3 tests were on XP Pro (which I failed to mention), so the tests thus far seem to validate the same functionality in SP 2 and SP3 and Pro and Home versions. This is not surprising. | |
| | | | | | | | | |
Ctrl Alt Del
Premium
join:2002-02-18
| said by Mele20 :Auto quote isn't working. I understand what Bandheight said. My reply is that it is not true that Fx3 is placing ADS on downloads. It is not doing for me. Therefore, this feature does not work. Bandheight has Service Pack 3 for XP. I have SP2. Maybe Service Pack 3 is required for this to work? If so, that is another good reason to not install SP3...getting too bossy. Your settings are insane so you may have turned them off in Internet Explorer's Internet Settings. If you're worried about this feature, you can turn it off so it acts exactly like it did before.
This feature was added in SP2, so your machine already has the framework for this feature.
--
less talk, more music | |
| | | | | | | | | | Mele20
Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
| Re: Firefox 3 honors Windows Security Zones... Auto quote worked the next time I tried it. Every now and then it won't work. If you had bothered to do a search you would find a number threads over the years about auto quote not working for awhile or working intermittently. I meantioned out of politeness but that was lost on you.
What "feature" was added in SP2?
--
"The same ferocity that our founders devoted to protect the freedom and independence of the press is now appropriate for our defense of the freedom of the internet. The stakes are the same: the survival of our Republic". Al Gore, The Assault on Reason | |
| | | | | | | | | |
Ctrl Alt Del
Premium
join:2002-02-18
| Re: Firefox 3 honors Windows Security Zones... said by Mele20 :What "feature" was added in SP2? In Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft added something called the Attachment Manager.
said by »support.microsoft.com/?kbid=883260 :The Attachment Manager in Windows XP SP2 can help protect your computer from unsafe attachments that you might receive with an e-mail message and from unsafe files that you might save from the Internet. If the Attachment Manager identifies an attachment that might be unsafe, the Attachment Manager prevents you from opening the file, or it warns you before you open the file. The Attachment Manager uses the IAttachmentExecute application programming interface (API) to find the file type, to find the file association, and to determine the most appropriate action. Microsoft Outlook Express, Microsoft Windows Messenger, Microsoft MSN Messenger, and Microsoft Internet Explorer use the Attachment Manager to handle e-mail attachments and Internet downloads. When you save files to your hard disk from a program that uses the Attachment Manager, the Web content zone information for the file is also saved with the file. For example, if you save a compressed file (.zip) that is attached to an e-mail message to your hard disk, the Web content zone information is also saved when you save the compressed file. More simply...
said by »smallvoid.com/article/ie-attachm···ger.html :Windows XP SP2 includes a new feature called Attachment Manager, which monitors files downloaded from the Internet or received as e-mail attachments. When a downloaded file is saved to a disk formatted with NTFS, then it will update the meta data for the file with the zone (Internet- / Restricted-zone) it was downloaded from. The meta data is saved as an Alternate Data Stream (ADS), which is a feature of NTFS where the same filename can be used to cover multiple data streams. For example, if you use Windows XP SP2's Internet Explorer to download an executable, Internet Explorer will tag that file as potentially dangerous using Attachment Manager's IAttachmentExecute. Then when you try to run that executable, Windows will show the following dialog:
Because the Attachment Manager was added in XP SP2, when you said:
I understand what Bandheight said. My reply is that it is not true that Fx3 is placing ADS on downloads. It is not doing for me. Therefore, this feature does not work. Bandheight has Service Pack 3 for XP. I have SP2. Maybe Service Pack 3 is required for this to work? If so, that is another good reason to not install SP3...getting too bossy. Was incorrect. Service Pack 3 is not required, Service Pack 2 is, which you already have.
Now, Firefox 2 did not use the Attachment Manager at all. If you downloaded an executable with Firefox 2, you never saw that Security Warning dialog. However, Firefox 3 does use the Attachment Manager with the default settings. When you download an executable with Firefox 3, you will get the same Security Warning dialog that IE would show.
Both websites in the quotes above show the Group Policy settings or Registry keys that control this feature.
--
less talk, more music | |
| | | | | | | | | | BandHeight
join:2004-08-30
Portland, TX
4 edits | 
Prompt Recieved Upon Execution of Zone 3 Tagged File DL'd with IE 7 | 
Prompt Recieved Upon Execution of Zone 3 Tagged File DL'd with FF 3.0 |
said by BandHeight :Results (image posted: FF-Streams.png) - IE7 - Added ADS; execution prompts user - FF 3.0 - Added ADS; execution prompts user - Opera 9.5 - Did not add ADS; execution proceeds without prompt - GetRight 5.2d - Did not add ADS; execution proceeds without prompt said by Mele20 :I don't understand your point. YOU had to add the ADS to get Fx to react. Soo....? I know that might have been a little confusing, but c'mon ... why would I have even wasted my time with the previous post if I could only achieve those results by manually adding the ADS? Of course I didn't manually add the ADS ... the applications did (or didn't) as the case may have been. For example, when I downloaded the file with FF 3.0, the tags were automatically added based on my Policy because FF 3.0 recognizes and respects the Policy I have set (it uses the aforementioned IAttachmentExecute::CheckPolicy Method to do so) whereas Opera, for example, is Policy agnostic (thus, it does not add the Zone ADS tag).
said by Mele20 :Plus, I thought Fx reacted if you had INsecure settings on IE not secure settings. Why would Fx stop you if the IE settings are secure? It should stop you only if the IE settings are insecure. None of the applications that recognize Policy react opposite your set Policy. They honor / respect your Policy. If you want to be insecure, the applications respect that. If you want to be secure, they respect that, too. It is your choice which Policy you set (Zone 1, 2, 3 or 4) for specific activities ... so why would FF 3.0 try to do the opposite of what your Policy dictated it to do?
If you have a Policy for high security, it prompts the user or blocks the activity completely (Zone 3 or Zone 4, respectively). If the user chooses a less secure Policy (Zone 1 or 2), the prompting and blocking do not occur at all or are lessened.
I think you are fundamentally misunderstanding this topic.
EDIT:
By the way, once the downloaded file is tagged with a Zone 3 ADS per policy, FF is out of the picture. The prompt that a user gets when the file is executed is then received from the OS and it looks just like the prompt that a Zone 3 file downloaded by IE would look (see images in this post).
Of course, this does not apply for Zone 4 because no file is actually downloaded, so no ADS can be added and the file-blocked message comes immediately from the browser itself (thus the 2 different screen-shots in my previous post). | |
| | | | | | | | | | Mele20
Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
| Re: Firefox 3 honors Windows Security Zones... said by BandHeight :If you have a Policy for high security, it prompts the user or blocks the activity completely (Zone 3 or Zone 4, respectively). If the user chooses a less secure Policy (Zone 1 or 2), the prompting and blocking do not occur at all or are lessened. I think you are fundamentally misunderstanding this topic. EDIT: By the way, once the downloaded file is tagged with a Zone 3 ADS per policy, FF is out of the picture. The prompt that a user gets when the file is executed is then received from the OS and it looks just like the prompt that a Zone 3 file downloaded by IE would look (see images in this post). Of course, this does not apply for Zone 4 because no file is actually downloaded, so no ADS can be added and the file-blocked message comes immediately from the browser itself (thus the 2 different screen-shots in my previous post). What are these "zones"? I don't use IE but rarely. I am a Mozilla person. I used Netscape when I got my first compter, then Mozilla, then Phoenix also and then Firebird/Firefox and SeaMonkey. I remember something called local/internet/trusted/restricted tabs in IE options. I never paid much attention to them. I kept everything in the internet tab except Spyware Blaster puts stuff in the restricted tab. I used custom settings for IE privacy from the beginning ...no slider or other junk but basically I don't use IE and would rip it out if I could. The only thing I use IE for, and the only reason to keep it around (if I could get rid of it), was for Java speedtests until the beginning of this year when I finally stopped using MSJava. I still don't allow Java on Fx. I have IE for speed tests and for the few sites that still won't work in Fx. (I also keep IE on a virtual machine that runs XP Pro SP1 for my ONLY install of Flash Player. I have it installed just so I can see how awful my ISP is now that they ditched the best speed test for a crap Flash one that cost a lot less. I never have allowed Flash on Fx or Mozilla/Seamonkey).
I thought we were talking about this:
"Reset system Internet security settings - Windows
Starting in Firefox 3: When you attempt to download an executable file (e.g., an .exe or .msi file) you may see a Firefox Downloads window with one of these messages under the filename:
* Blocked: Download may contain a virus or spyware (Firefox 3 Beta 5 image)
* This download has been blocked by your Security Zone Policy (Firefox 3 RC1 image).
This issue does not occur in Firefox 2 or earlier.
Firefox 3 may block downloads of all executable files if the Internet security option, "Launching applications and unsafe files" is set to "Disabled". [18] [19] To change this setting, open Internet Options (via Control Panel or from Internet Explorer -> Tools) and click the "Security" tab. Select the "Internet" zone, click the "Custom level..." button, then find the "Launching applications and unsafe files" setting (under Miscellaneous) and select "Prompt (Recommended)" "
»kb.mozillazine.org/Unable_to_sav···_Windows
--
"The same ferocity that our founders devoted to protect the freedom and independence of the press is now appropriate for our defense of the freedom of the internet. The stakes are the same: the survival of our Republic". Al Gore, The Assault on Reason | |
|
Grail Knight
Who Dares Wins
Premium
join:2003-05-31
 ·Verizon Online DSL
2 edits | quote:
Who knows what I did of the myriad of pref changes, etc. that borked it. I am just stunned at how much has to be changed in Fx3 to make it usable.
Are you going to start this again? You said the same thing about Fx v2 that was disputed and never gave a straight answer as to what exactly you had to change to make it usable. I install Fx v3 and start it right up and used it. That is uable to me. Tweaking comes afterword.
Other then your usual complaints of favorite extensions not working, no spellbound because the dev made the excellent inline one, and the awesome bar of which I posted tweaks to disable it months ago what else is wrong?
Problems with Fx v3 and VM should be asked of the VM devs. I see no notes saying Fx v3 is made to run on a virtual drive.
Delete it and start over. You certainly have time.
quote:
Besides, IE has always been very unsafe as far as downloads go as you can RUN the download.
Is that not the goal to run a program after you download it unless you are archiving something? Certainly by now you should know how to right-click save to hard drive and not have it run without user approval.
Edit* Closed up spacing and consolidated comments
Edit* If you even follow the link the OP posted you will see that the AV can be disabled. Did you read down that far on the page? | |
| | Mele20
Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
| Re: Firefox 3 honors Windows Security Zones... It is semantics that plagues you and I.  I don't think something is "usable" unless it works like the user wants it to work. You feel it is "usable" if you can use like it comes even though you dislike a great deal about the way it is out of the box. That's a semantics disagreement about what the word "usable" means. We are both right or both wrong as the answer is based on how a person defines "usable".
My extensions work fine. But there is no Spellbound extension for Fx3 and I cannot turn off the spell checker even though the box to use it in Options/advanced is unchecked. I also cannot turn it off on the Vista machine. I have to right click uncheck the "check spelling" box every time I go to make a post. Then when I preview the post and want to change something, add something, the spell checker has been turned back on. It is awful. It is like a leech that cannot be dislodged. The new TBE extensions are ok but the auto hide doesn't work right and I had to turn that off. I have three extensions where I have one for 1.5. I have the awesome bar fixed and I don't have to hassle with getting rid of the favicons like my friend just did and sent me the rather convoluted fix because I installed CookieSafe and it now, with the latest version, blocks all those myriad of third party favicon cookies.
I don't understand your comment about IE and downloads. IE downloads are dangerous because IE does not stop you from running the download. Fx is far superior in this regard so there is no need for Fx to go begging to IE about some Windows standards that Microsoft doesn't even have. As for the anti virus being hijacked by Fx3, of course, I turned that off. Why would you think I wouldn't? I had not encountered the behavior because I don't run AV on my virtual machines...(well, I will be running one on the Vista one because it is the inferior Microsoft Virtual PC which has no ability to take snapshots or clone).
Where did you get the idea that Fx cannot run on virtual machines? If true, that would set Fx back eons. I fired up my virtual machine that has Fx2 on it and it loads all sites rapidly. There is no problem with VMWare. It's something with Fx3. As I said, I have done a great deal of "tweaking" as you call it ...I call the same thing making the browser "usable" and probably something I did borked it. I have IE 8 on that machine and it has lots of problems so trying it to see if it could be something with that XP Pro install (rather than Fx2) isn't much help. I don't think I installed Opera on that machine. The virtual machines have a fixed size hard drive which is small so I can't put a lot on them. That is one nice thing about MS Virtual PC..I can change the size of the hard drive on the fly or add more hard drives if I want.
--
"The same ferocity that our founders devoted to protect the freedom and independence of the press is now appropriate for our defense of the freedom of the internet. The stakes are the same: the survival of our Republic". Al Gore, The Assault on Reason | |
| | |
Grail Knight
Who Dares Wins
Premium
join:2003-05-31
·Verizon Online DSL
1 edit | Re: Firefox 3 honors Windows Security Zones... Semantics are very important when discussing computers and software. I am not being nitpicky with you. When I was working and I went to a customers house I bet I spent more time trying to figure out what they were talking about vs time spent fixing their computer.
--------------------------------
Just put this in the user.js in your Profile Folder and it will disable the spellchecker. Restart Fx when done. You will have to create the user.js file.
user_pref("layout.spellcheckDefault", 0);
-----------------------------------------
I did not say that Fx could not run on Virtual Machine they will run but oft times in Fx you lose some functionality. You have seen this yourself.
Look at a software package and it will say something like this:
Works with:
Win95
WinXP
Vista
Hypothetically if also were to say a virtual drive then I know the developer has tested it fully in this environment. I have nothing against a virtual install I run some games from a virtual drive so I do not have to swap out discs but there are a couple that refused to work right.
---------------------------------------------
IE allowing something to run is not inherently dangerous. It is the user that is dangerous much of the time by not paying attention to what they are doing or blowing through things clicking away not paying attention. You know you can have IE set to download and notify when done but it will not run the program without user intervention and can even be notified before the download begins. It is all about knowing what you (not you in particular) are doing and how your setting up IE.
In all these years I have had zero issue downloading in IE or having something Run without me initiating it. A good AV is going to catch anything or it is supposed to.
Edit* Cleaned up spelling and layout. | |
| | | | | | |
|
·
·