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Firefox users who visited the website were silently infected with Belmoo, a Windows Trojan that gives the attacker complete control of the machine. Once successfully installed, the malware creates an executable in the Windowstemp directory and sets it to run on startup via the registry. It also attempts to connect to two Internet addresses, both which point to a server in Taiwan, through which someone can control the system.
Mozilla has acknowledged the problem and is investigating it further. "We have diagnosed the issue and are currently developing a fix, which will be pushed out to Firefox users as soon as the fix has been properly tested," the company stated. "The trojan was initially reported as live on the Nobel Peace Prize site, and that specific site is now being blocked by Firefox's built-in malware protection. However, the exploit code could still be live on other websites." In the interim, Firefox users have two workarounds available to them: disable Javascript and/or use NoScript.
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ie download-download-download-download - then - "error on install due to firefox running in another window"
i really don't understand this line.
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Ha, someone might actually get offended by that comment!
And really, many people rely on foreign and top level solutions. I know loads of people who use Tokelau-aliases for their websites. And Niue-servers to host them. To put it frankly, I'm offended by this comment. However I understand how you think, and it's perfectly fine wanting to increase one's security.
But a solution like this would simply not work. Especially not if everyone started using Windows' and browser's which block foreign content. Multimillions of dollars will be lost if the world-wide-web stopped being world-wide. Foreign people would stop learning things from YouTube, foreign people would not be able to chat with friends on Skype, MSN or Facebook, foreign people would sieze developing. And no good can come of this, you know...
Would be a bummer for me, I use co.uk, and .com addresses all the time.
If my country blocked .com we'd lose half of our own countries websites - People here use .com as well as .co.uk, among other TLD's.
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