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[torkell]

You don't expect to see a malware attack on your LiveJournal friends page of all places. Fortuantly Norton caught it before it could do anything.

Rumour on the internet is that there's a string of banner ads that eventually redirect to malware.

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[torkell]

Why is it that whenever there's a security exploit affecting Windows, people shout "get Linux", but when it's Linux that's affected no-one shouts "get Windows"?

It's the same with browsers - when was the last time you heard someone say "get Internet Explorer, it doesn't have $securityhole that Firefox has"?

[tau-iota-mu-c.livejournal.com]

Probably because we're self righteous bastards.

I just added these to opera's blocked content:
http://sixapart-images.adbureau.net/sixapart/*
http://*.googlesyndication.com/pagead/*
I wonder why I hadn't needed to add them before?

[torkell]

Pass, maybe they've been served under a different URL before. They use a lot of google adverts here, so if you use ad-blocking (I don't) I'm surprised you actually saw them.

[jecook]

Indeed.

I use a customized HOSTS file to redirect quite a number of ad serving sites to localhost; the NoScript and Ad-Block Plus add-ins for Firefox do the rest for me.

[link077.livejournal.com]

Because Internet Explorer tends to have far more $securityholes than Firefox has ever had ;-).