Re: fewer virus, etc. attacks with Mozilla ?

2004-06-16 Thread Jean-Marc Desperrier
Michael Lefevre wrote: On 2004-06-11, Jean-Marc Desperrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As 1.4.1 is it's most recent version publicly available [snip] Actually it's not - 1.4.2 was released a few weeks ago, and binaries are available. Mozilla.org didn't make a big announcement because it's not a bui

Re: fewer virus, etc. attacks with Mozilla ?

2004-06-16 Thread Michael Lefevre
On 2004-06-16, Jean-Marc Desperrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Lefevre wrote: >> On 2004-06-11, Jean-Marc Desperrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>As 1.4.1 is it's most recent version publicly available >> >> [snip] >> >> Actually it's not - 1.4.2 was released a few weeks ago, and bina

Re: fewer virus, etc. attacks with Mozilla ?

2004-06-16 Thread Ian Grigg
Rui Pedro Figueira Covelo wrote: But was mozilla built thinking on security more than "user friendlyness"? ... How about mozilla? Is security a primary goal? In terms of goals, I'd perceive Mozilla as not having a security goal. It's certainly conscious of the security needs, and it takes it fai

Re: newbie : nss cert creation failing

2004-06-16 Thread Nelson B
BRAUX Martial wrote: Hi everybody ! I'm experiencing problems while creating a certificate. Looks to me like you're trying to follow the instructions in chapter 12 of the printed O'Reilly book "Creating Applications with Mozilla". Those instructions are flawed. Much (most?) of that chapter has be

xpi is unsafe?

2004-06-16 Thread les ander
Hi, It occured to me that most of the extensions that I install for firefox and thunderbird, I simply do it on trust. But can't someone do something malicious with it (like, rm -f my home directory. etc)? What are the potential security risks associated with the xpi based installation mechanism?