Web page took over Firefox....NoScript extension

[Schiz0]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Young <tuxman at knology.net> wrote:
> Kipton Moravec wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 12:18 -0400, Schiz0 wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Kipton Moravec <kip at kdream.com> wrote:
>>>> Made a mistake and hit a link I should not have. It was the first one on
>>>> a google search.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.geocities.com/sammiestuart22/woodenalphabetblocks/embesseling-money.html
>>>>
>>>> It popped up a message window asking to install "Antivirus 2008" and
>>>> would not let me close the Firefox window, change the URL, or cancel the
>>>> install window. I could not change to another tab. I could go to another
>>>> Firefox window.
>>>>
>>>> While it looks like a Windows Virus, or something, how come it is able
>>>> to take over firefox and keep me from closing it or changing to a new
>>>> URL?
>>>>
>>>> I thought Ubuntu helped prevent this crap from happening.
>>>>
>>>> I either have to find the process and kill it or reboot.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a GUI way to stop it? I have 8.04 LTS.
>>>>
>>>> Kip
>>> That's most likely javascript, which runs inside pretty much every
>>> browser. Use a firefox extension such as NoScript in order to block
>>> javascript on unknown pages.
>>>
>>> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722
>>>
>> That fixed it. Thanks.
>>
>
> I tried using NoScript before on FF2 for windows.  It was a major pain
> to use then. It seemed to get in the way of almost half of the sites I
> would visit. It is any easier now, or is that just the price of using it?
>


You can just put the site you use regularly in the Whitelist. And you
can also temporarily allow sites that you visit, but not regularly.