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Korean Mozilla Binaries Infected
Magnus writes "Korean distributions of Mozilla and Thunderbird for Linux were infected with Virus.Linux.RST.b. This virus searches for executable ELF files in the current and /bin directories and infects them. It also contains a backdoor, which downloads scripts from another site, and executes them, using a standard shell."
...after Yesterday's story
Oops Mozilla. Damage control - Engage!.
Why is only the Korean version infected? The North Korean leader is already paranoid enough. This will push him over the edge.
//Headline: North Korea Bans Use of Computers
bullshit
Typically slashdot
Windows version:
"Well, the symantec description wasn't very useful to me. But if I read it right, the comes through activeX and modifies your host file. But iirc it will have to be run with administrator privileges in order to work. Dunno about you guys, I disable ActiveX when running as admin. Basic security. So, if I understand this correctly, works when you've been sloppy. Not much of a threat, is it?"
Please, I like firefox as much as the next poster, but please apply equal standards when comparing/recommending firefox. If you still believe firefox is Perfect, surprise, no software is.
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But given the increasing number of security vulnerabilities discovered this year and freeware Opera being available without ads, its time for me to switch yet again based on: security, features, price, and performance.
On Windows machines I've switched from: Netscape -> IE -> Mozilla -> FireFox -> Opera 8.5 (yesterday) -> ?
Help improve the quality of software: if you are a non-programmer, then save your loyalty for people.Blind loyalty to software promotes bad software and laziness. Switch whenever something better comes along as long as the benefits justify the cost of switching. Opera 8.5 is free beer, more secure than Firefox & IE (for now), feels faster on Windows, and has nicer core features (which I didn't expect yesterday).
Price, security, performance, and features (like the mini-panel dropdown when you click the URL address editbox).
Sure, the source code isn't available but all of the above benefits outweigh it. Especially since I never modified or compiled Firefox (I modify only about 5% of software I download--and I download a lot).
If another browser comes along that is better, I'll probably switch again as long as the benefits justify the cost. All it took was a few mouse clicks to import Firefox bookmarks into Opera.
Good luck Mozilla/Firefox, I hope you improve enough to convince me to switch back again--and I hope some other product does the same afterwards, and so on...promoting software evolution.
Precisely. It won't block you getting modded +5 insightfull.
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What do you mean IF Microsoft did this?
THEY DID - LONG AGO! Don't you remember that case? It was even the SAME COUNTRY!
Score 2: Troll! Thank you for playing, moron!
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Everyone knows that Linux can't get a virus. I'm sure I've read that about a million times on /.
Clearly this is just a lie spread by M$.
You never really know how close to the edge you can go until you fall off.