Linked by Kroc Camen on Mon 21st Sep 2009 22:25 UTC
Last week, Mozilla started placing a warning message on its welcome page, seen by users after they upgrade Firefox to the latest version, informing the user if they have an out of date Flash Player. Now the stats have been crunched, and the result is that 10 million people have clicked the link, doing more than Adobe's own efforts to keep people up to date.
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RE: WARNING: Offensive post
by Hiev on Tue 22nd Sep 2009 00:28
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RE[2]: WARNING: Offensive post
by AlexandreAM on Tue 22nd Sep 2009 00:42
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I think the OP was talking about the fact that clicking on a link on your home page instructing you to download an executable is somewhat dumb.
I mean, what if a site managed to set firefox's home page in disguise? But, to be honest, I think it would be unlikely, though I never actually thought about it until now.
So, the question I believe we should be asking is: How hard would it be to, from a web site (anything more and the attacker wouldn't really need to have you clicking the link, right?), to change a user's home page on Firefox?
10 million infected people from downloading what appears to be a mozilla recommendation is a dreadful scenario.
RE[2]: WARNING: Offensive post
by phoenix on Tue 22nd Sep 2009 18:48
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RE: WARNING: Offensive post
by Brunis on Tue 22nd Sep 2009 08:17
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Well, if users are that dumb, they deserve to receive and execute all kinds of evil viruses. And I'll rejoice!
(Well, I did post a warning)