Obi-Wan Jerkobi
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Has anyone else noticed this in Safari on PC? I just thought I'd ask to see if there was any way to fix it or is it just a quirk with the browser.
Blind Dragon said:Safari has been hit hard lately by the malware writers.
Here is a bit of info for you - Microsoft Alerts Users to Carpet Bombing via Safari
More reason to stick with firefox. Especially with the new version fixing to be releasedObi-Wan Jerkobi said:I do believe this equally can happen in IE7 as well?
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. Not unlike most browser based vulnerabilities that we see these days, user interaction is required such as clicking on a link in email or visiting a malicious web page."
In response to this security report, Mozilla Security Blog posted, "This issue is currently under investigation. To protect our users, the details of the issue will remain closed until a patch is made available. There is no public exploit, the details are private, and so the current risk to users".
If other security reports are taken into account, like the one found on SecurityFocus website which deals with an unspecified buffer overflow vulnerability (boundary condition error), the new security improvements from Firefox 3.0 are not powerful enough for present pishing and malware threats. In conclusion, having in mind that over 14 millions downloads of Mozilla Firefox 3.0 have been performed, users' computers are in potential danger until the security patches are released to fix the existing vulnerabilities.
Wow, if this isn't just silly...Security researcher Aviv Raff said that if this flaw is exploited in combination with bugs in Windows and Internet Explorer, attackers can run unauthorized software on a victim's computer.