Anurag wrote:
2009/5/10 Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com:
Hello,
My family members were checking some information on google using the laptop loaded with Lenny. After some time, they got a message saying that there was a lot of trojan and 'blah blah' infection in their system and they should immediately protect it by clicking on the link provided. They called me up to ask what to do and I asked them to simply cancel it and close the window. However the window was persistent and would refuse to close. It even came to a stage where it wanted to download some exe
My wild guess is that it was one of those malware advertisements that show windows message boxes with some generic message to clean up the system. The whole message box is a link and obviously refuses to go away.
It was just that but my query is how secure is browsing in Linux if javascript is enabled, given the fact that this sticky window would refuse to go? Does enabling of scripting in firefox bypass the Unix file self execute permission barrier?