MySpace may be hazardous to more than your social life
Wow. Between this:
MySpace Banner Ad Infects Million Users
and this:
Worm lurks behind MySpace profiles
I’m awfully glad I’ve been too busy to visit MySpace lately. And you know, I think I’ll be avoiding it for a while until they tighten their security a bit.
5 Responses to “MySpace may be hazardous to more than your social life”
Posted: Jul 27th, 2006 at 11:30 am
Another good reason not to use IE…
Posted: Jul 27th, 2006 at 12:18 pm
I was once hit with a banner based worm on quizilla, but I don’t remember what browser I was using.
Posted: Jul 27th, 2006 at 1:08 pm
Linux. Firefox/thunderbird with adblocker and noscript. I don’t even hesitate to go to any website or open any attachment in email. In fact, the novell guy sends me dangerous payloads so we can take them apart and figure out what it was supposed to do.
Posted: Jul 27th, 2006 at 1:16 pm
Oh yeah, I forgot I have adblocker and noscript on my Firefox browser at home, too (on a Mac OS X machine, so while not quite Linux, still not quite Windows either, in terms of vulnerability to attack). And I long ago blocked MySpace ads mostly because they’re so freakin’ annoying. So I guess I was in very little peril anyway, but still. How obnoxious.
Posted: Jul 27th, 2006 at 3:20 pm
Phew, the bennies of being on a Mac!