Re: [opensuse] REPOST: Most interesting...and possibly disturbing about Flash (and Firefox)?

On 10/12/09 21:10, Tejas Guruswamy wrote:
On 09/12/09 23:39, Basil Chupin wrote:

I came across this when I went looking for "about:blank":

The term "about:blank" is also the generic name for a group of
variants of the CoolWebSearch
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoolWebSearch> malware
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware> program group.

but apparently may also be used for advertisements.


[pruned]


about:blank in Internet Explorer can be hijacked by certain Windows
malware (so that it no longer displays a blank page, but ads, and since
about:blank is used everywhere you see a lot of ads) but that does not
mean the url about:blank itself is malicious, especially on Linux.


OK, thanks muchly. I accept the part about Linux and about:blank. I now
feel less paranoid re it in oS.

But I do not accept the generalisation that "about:blank itself is not
malicious": if something like this can be hijacked and can be used for
malware then it *is* malicious - and it's use should be either removed
or have protection in place to prevent it from being hijacked.


BC

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