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eFast Malware Hijacks Browser With Chrome Clone (malwarebytes.org)
An anonymous reader writes with a report at The Stack that: eFast Browser, a new malicious adware which disguises itself as Google Chrome, has hijacked internet users' systems in an apparent effort to serve its own ads and harvest user activity to sell to third-party advertisers. It is able to mirror the aesthetics of Chrome as it uses the same source code, available across the open-source project Chromium. Once installed, eFast places ads across existing web pages, linking to third-party e-commerce sites or other malicious platforms.
LOL, WTF??? So, malware which rips out your browser, puts itself in its place, and then serves you ads and whatever the hell else it does ... and they're asking if it adheres to a damned privacy policy?
Anything which installs itself like that can safely be assumed to not give a flying crap about your damned privacy.
Why the hell they even ponder if something like this follows a privacy policy? It's malware. No, it isn't going to have a privacy policy.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Instead of going after those who plant the malware (in this case, the Chrome clone), why not go after those "third party advertisers" and those who place the ads on the hijacked browser?
printf("\v"); This was published in August 1984, and credits other work prior to that, including a security critique of an "early version of Multics". It's a 40 year old attack. Your "full trust" argument is bullshit. There are mitigations for this specific trust attack, but they're not practiced widely. And other similar trust attacks aren't mitigated at all.
If someone writes malware for Linux, there will be malware for Linux. (And it has already happened.) The only thing keeping malware on Linux from being widespread is that most people dumb enough to install random shit from a website don't run Linux. It's what protected the Mac for so long: it wasn't a juicy target. If/When Linux reaches the masses, there will be plenty of malware for it.
You can't protect stupid people from themselves. You have to protect yourself from stupid people. That's the way the world works, regardless of your computer's operating system.
Now get off the stump in the middle of my lawn.