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Worm Exploit Distributed by Advertising Network
Zocalo writes "Given that a lot of Slashdot readers also check The Register, it's important to note that their Internet advertising provider, Falk AG, was compromised by the BOFRA exploit yesterday. The Falk AG service has been suspended by The Register and a statement from Falk AG is due on Monday. The upshot is that if you visited the Register yesterday morning and use IE as your browser, then you probably need to run a full virus scan with up to date data files. Of course, those of us running other browsers and something like AdBlock have nothing to worry about. Again." You're OK for now if you're running SP2. There's also a good security writeup about the problem.
Well you can keep attacking that straw man argument if you want but it has nothing to do with AdBlock.
If a commmercial web site operator knew that a user had AdBlock installed, they would NOT agree to the terms of that user accessing the website, not only wasting bandwidth but acquiring the content contained on the website (which costs money to produce). Their website, their rules. Nobody is forcing you to go, you can leave at any time -- or you can stay and use unethical methods to make your visit slightly more convenient.
And all of you bitching about it being within your rights to view content how you want, blah blah blah, shut up already. I am addressing the ethical wrongness of AdBlock -- you are stealing bandwidth and content without also viewing the means for which the web site creates enough revenue for the web site to sustain itself.
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As a side note, observe what happens when you go against slashbot groupthink:
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Sure, corporate users can have their IT guy stick in a Linux web-proxy server to help protect the useless Microsoft Windows system from yet another attack. They can rack it next to the Linux box used to filter the spam, the Linux box used to strip all the Microsoft Windows viruses out of e-mail and file shares, and the Linux based firewalls protecting the whole army of Microsoft Windows flawed desktops.
Oh, and the same blocking could be done with a Windows web-proxy server. You don't need Linux, unless you aren't smart enough to figure out how to work Windows.
Install SP2? They wouldn't even know was an "SP2" is.
They don't need to. You click a button, and it keeps you up to date. Someone with automatic update wouldn't even need to know what SP2 is, but they would be up to date. And they wouldn't have to spend hours trying to figure out how to upgrade their OS like they do with Linux.
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How the hell was that a troll? That's GOOD ADVICE! Morons...
||| I still can't believe Parkay's not butter.
And WTF do you get off saying, "he". There are a few female IT professionals.
Take your faux sensitivity and stow it. It won't help you get any chicks.
and live on government handouts.
After all you have a RIGHT to make a living. Or in the words of Darl McBride:
"We're fighting for the right in the industry to be able to make a living selling software," McBride told the audience. He compared this right to the ability "to send your children to college" and "to buy a second home."
How the hell was that good advice? It was senseless TROLLING against IE, and nothing more. Moron...