McAfee SiteAdvisor obviously rates that site Dangerous, but SIteAdvisor only works on Firefox/IE for now. A solution would be to prevent timed/recurring JavaScript alerts or something. Maybe set a maximum of 7 new alerts/new windows respectively because any legitimate site wouldn't need to go past 7.
On Aug 17, 7:11 pm, Adam Shannon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 6:43 PM, FirefoxRocks <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > > > Chrome and Windows are literally attacked by this page > > > The source code can be viewed here: > > >http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Frules.on.nimp.org%2F&c... > > *** WARNING! If you do visit the below page, turn off your speakers, > > save all unsaved data and exit other programs *** > >http://rules.on.nimp.org/ > > > It opened Windows Live Mail (I'm assuming the default mail > > application), and it kept popping up a dialog box to open Telnet and > > Skype among other files and programs so fast that you can not close > > them. Windows Task Manager can open, but it is much too slow to kill > > any processes (wlmail.exe or chrome.exe). > > > This problem also occurs on Safari, but it is far worse. > > Sadly I don't know what can be done to stop this. Most of the code > is innocent by its self [changing audio tracks with an array, setting the > background, displaying alert's and opening windows], but when it is combined > with distasteful content and executed in such a refined matter it really is > hard to stop. > Sure vendors could prevent any actions such as .keyCode == 18 || .keyCode == > 115, but that can be used with good intentions (preventing an accidental > window close when a user is uploading a video). They could also restrict > volume settings to some decibel range but I don't know how well that would > work (trying to play a youtube video during a loud conference/floor show). > > I would think that "signatures" could be created (much like AV software does > now) but that would dramatically slow page loading. I guess the only thing > to do currently is mark the page/[sub.]domain as spam and block access to > it. > > -- > - Adam Shannon (http://ashannon.us) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
