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Opera's site hit by Blackhole malvertising, says Bitdefender

said by The Register :

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Opera has suspended ad-serving on its portal as a precaution while it investigates reports that surfers were being exposed to malware simply by visiting the Norwegian browser firm's home page.

Malicious scripts loaded by portal.opera.com were redirecting users towards a malicious site hosting the notorious BlackHole exploit kit, said a Romanian anti-virus firm BitDefender, which said it had detected the apparent attack on its automated systems. BitDefender said it promptly warned Opera after it detected the problem on Wednesday. It seems likely the scripts had been loaded through a third-party advertisement, a practice commonly known as malvertising.

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AdBlockPlus, and NoScript. A beautiful combination. No Java for the coup de gras.
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I'm not anti-social, I just don't like stupid people.

It has to do with Opera's site, it seems. I use FF with the above.
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I'm not anti-social, I just don't like stupid people.

reply to Doctor Four
Opera's site has ads?

reply to Juggernaut
So how is Fx+NoScript different from Opera? I have JS disabled globally in Opera. As I recall, from having had Fx+NoScript, one can set per site permissions for JS. Same as Opera.
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Norman
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So what, if you wanted to use Youtube, you'd have to: F12 | Edit | Scripting | Enable (& then refresh the page)?

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As I recall about NoScript, being asked on every site visit was sufficiently annoying that the user tended to execute the site whitelist option; essentially how Opera works.
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

reply to therube

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F12 | 'A' | Ctrl+R. Not that bad I suppose.

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Or use Edit Site Preferences on the context menu.

reply to therube

Right-click, context menu.