Opera Crash leaves me a little uneasy

[Bret Busby]

On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, Wade Smart wrote:

> 
> Bret Busby wrote:
>> On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, Wade Smart wrote:
>>
>>> 20090221 1003 GMT-5
>>>
>>> About ten minutes ago I was on a news site. I had clicked on a link but
>>> nothing was happening. I waited and waiting; stopped the link and
>>> reloaded - nothing. Then all the tabs I had up were doing the same
>>> thing. I turned off the browser and restarted. First thing that popped
>>> up was a error box stating where to find plugins. Apparently it didnt
>>> know where any where. I click browse to where the plugins were. The
>>> browser start but lost all my pages it usually saves upon restart.
>>>
>>> Even though I have shown it where the three locations are for plugins -
>>> opera, mozilla and flash non free, I cant play flash or audio files.
>>>
>>> I have since noticed a few other problems: first, all pages load very
>>> slow - if at all - though they do load in FF. When it is loading a page,
>>> my entire system gets slow. I had the window manager open navigating to
>>> the location where the plugins are and it was running very very slow.
>>>
>>> Because I have had several other problems lately this has really got me
>>> feeling a bit scared --- that my system has totally become unstable.
>>>
>>> Wade
>>>
>>>
>>
>> The link wasn't to a PDF file, was it?
>>
>> In the last 24 hours, I have receivd a CERT advisory regarding PDF files
>> and Adobe Reader, and malicious code.
>>
>> --
>> Bret Busby
>> Armadale
>> West Australia
>> ..............
>>
>> "So once you do know what the question actually is,
>>   you'll know what the answer means."
>> - Deep Thought,
>>    Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
>>    "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
>>    A Trilogy In Four Parts",
>>    written by Douglas Adams,
>>    published by Pan Books, 1992
>>
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>
> 20090221 1021 GMT-5
>
> No. It was a link to a article within the news site.
> Now, the area that I clicked on was a flash app so maybe that had
> something to do with it.
>
> Wade
>

Ah.

Can't help you there, sorry.

I avoid flash, like the plague.

Too many past CERT advisories. Risky stuff.

Maybe you have found a new "vulnerability"?

--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............

"So once you do know what the question actually is,
  you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
   Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
   "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
   A Trilogy In Four Parts",
   written by Douglas Adams,
   published by Pan Books, 1992

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