Re: Mozilla targeted malware in the wild

2004-04-08 Thread Ben Bucksch
Daniel Veditz wrote: site level filtering ... we're still arguing Where? ___ Mozilla-security mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mozilla-security

Starting EXEs from browser (was: Mozilla targeted malware in the wild)

2004-04-08 Thread Ben Bucksch
Daniel Veditz wrote: Figuring out an appropriate UI and security model is tough. When sites offered .exe downloads we used to force people to explicitly save them and launch them using the OS. This was to discourage stu^H^H^Hinexperienced people from running any malware they ran across, with a

Re: Mozilla targeted malware in the wild

2004-04-08 Thread James Graham
Daniel Veditz wrote: Robert Mohr wrote: mrhappy wrote: It would be really good if there was a default setting of silent ignore for xpi's It's not the default and never will be, but you can set 'xpinstall.enabled' to false in about:config. It is not now the default, but never say never--we

Re: Mozilla targeted malware in the wild

2004-04-08 Thread Daniel Veditz
James Graham wrote: The fundamental difference between exe files and xpinstall files is that, from a user point of view, xpinstall is only a mechanism for installing stuff into the browser. Then we need to change the impression: XPInstall is a general purpose install engine, originally

Re: Mozilla targeted malware in the wild

2004-04-08 Thread Daniel Veditz
Ben Bucksch wrote: Daniel Veditz wrote: site level filtering ... we're still arguing Where? Ben and I, in person. Actually the argument's pretty much over, there's not much point in doing the work if the default (which 99% don't change) is to work the same way as today.

Re: Mozilla targeted malware in the wild

2004-04-08 Thread Jean-Marc Desperrier
Daniel Veditz wrote: Ben and I, in person. Actually the argument's pretty much over, there's not much point in doing the work if the default (which 99% don't change) is to work the same way as today. I don't know about FireFox GUI, but please, please, if you do it as white list, *don't* add