The Ubuntu Experiment

[Derek Broughton]

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.

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derek