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Adobe Flash Ads Launching Clipboard Hijack Attacks
bullyBEEF writes "Malicious hackers are using booby-trapped Flash banner ads to hijack clipboards for use in rogue security software attacks. In the Web attacks, which affect Mac, Windows, and Linux users running Firefox, IE, and Safari, bad guys are seizing control of the machine's clipboard (probably using the Flash command setClipboard) and inserting a hard-to-delete URL that points to a fake anti-virus program. A number of legitimate sites have been seen to host ads carrying the attack — including Newsweek, Digg, and MSNBC.com. Researcher Aviv Raff offers a harmless demo of how it's done."
"Slashdot: Failed Car Analogies. Amateur Lawyering. Anecdote Battles."
"Slashdot: Failed Car Analogies. Amateur Lawyering. Anecdotal Battles."
There, I fixed your sig for you. You're welcome.
Sig this!
i can't think of a website that deserves a hack more than those smug assholes....
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
No, you changed the meaning of his sig. "Anecdote battles" means a battle of anecdotes. "Anecdotal battles" means anecdotes about battles.
It was already fine grammatically.
If you're going to be pedantic, you should take a few remedial English courses yourself.
While you're correct that the poster changed the meaning, you're still wrong.
Anecdotal battles means battles which are anecdotal in nature, anecdotal is an adjective here. Now, as far as to what that actually ends up meaning, I'm not entirely sure. :-P
Your pedantry, while well intentioned, is still in need of some remedy. ;-)
You are wrong. GP is correct.