So does anyone know of a way to disable plugins that aren't completely safe?

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 18:46, Cameron King <[email protected]> wrote:

> This past week, a co-worker and I both got bitten by a PDF that loaded
> in the browser using Adobe's plugin and carried a payload of two
> executables files.  Both Firefox and Chrome (with the help of Adobe's
> plugin) let the malicious files execute.  (It's a blood-chilling,
> power-strip-kicking sort of feeling to see two malicious exe's running
> as children under your browser in Task Manager...)
>
> In the past, I've always used Firefox+NoScript (among other plugins)
> as a first line of defense against this sort of thing, but I switched
> to Chrome when it first came out.  Really, if I wanted to play with
> Chrome I should have been running it in a VM... but what can I say?  I
> got excited... and lazy.
>
> I know that plugins can be sandboxed if they are "Chromified," but
> it's my understanding that sandboxable plugins are few and far between
> right now and that most plugins run outside the sandbox just like they
> would in IE or Firefox.  Is there any way to completely disable
> support for non-sandboxed plugins until something like NoScript comes
> along for Chrome?
>
> (Also, I'm having a hard time finding detailed information on how
> Chrome manages security, so I apologize in advance if I've used the
> wrong terminology.  Is jail the right term instead?)
>
> --
> Cameron
>
>

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