The Ubuntu Experiment
Derek Broughton
news at pointerstop.ca
Sat Aug 2 00:11:19 UTC 2008
Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 2008/7/31 Steve C. Lamb <grey at dmiyu.org>:
>> Some of the common vectors for recent exploits on Windows/IE have come
>> through compromised flash banner ads. One can throw the baby out with
>> the bathwater and disable flash completely or one can be a little more
>> fine grained and disable the flash banner ads while allowing the other
>> flash content which is probably not going to be compromised.
>
> I threw that baby out long ago with the FlashBlock extension. I have
> it set to only allow Flash from a few select sites, such as Youtube.
No kidding. Flash _is_ a virus.
--
derek
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