Re: Malware Protection

2014-11-01 Thread Geoff Welsh
David E. Ross wrote: That is a difference between 2.26.1 and 2.30. I have been using Netscape Mozilla Suite SeaMonkey for about 20 years and have done okay without the malware protection. I can do without it for the time it takes to fix bug #1064639. bugs get fixed? None of the ones I

Re: Malware Protection

2014-11-01 Thread EE
is blocked But http://www.itisatrap.org/firefox/its-a-trap.html is NOT blocked. That is a difference between 2.26.1 and 2.30. I have been using Netscape Mozilla Suite SeaMonkey for about 20 years and have done okay without the malware protection. I can do without it for the time it takes

Re: Malware Protection

2014-10-30 Thread Ray_Net
David E. Ross wrote, On 30/10/2014 01:47: The Web page http://www.itisatrap.org/firefox/its-a-trap.html provides a test of Gecko's protection of users against phishing Web sites. Is there a corresponding Web page for testing Gecko's protection against sites containing malware? I can see this

Re: Malware Protection

2014-10-30 Thread Daniel
On 30/10/14 21:02, Ray_Net wrote: David E. Ross wrote, On 30/10/2014 01:47: The Web page http://www.itisatrap.org/firefox/its-a-trap.html provides a test of Gecko's protection of users against phishing Web sites. Is there a corresponding Web page for testing Gecko's protection against sites

Re: Malware Protection

2014-10-30 Thread David E. Ross
On 10/30/2014 3:02 AM, Ray_Net wrote: David E. Ross wrote, On 30/10/2014 01:47: The Web page http://www.itisatrap.org/firefox/its-a-trap.html provides a test of Gecko's protection of users against phishing Web sites. Is there a corresponding Web page for testing Gecko's protection against

Re: Malware Protection

2014-10-30 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
David E. Ross wrote: On the left side of the Preferences window, select Privacy Security. There are two checkboxes under Safe Browsing. The phishing checkbox does indeed block http://www.mozilla.org/firefox/its-a-trap.html for 2.26.1, but the malware checkbox does not block

Re: Malware Protection

2014-10-30 Thread Ray_Net
David E. Ross wrote, On 30/10/2014 16:19: On 10/30/2014 3:02 AM, Ray_Net wrote: David E. Ross wrote, On 30/10/2014 01:47: The Web page http://www.itisatrap.org/firefox/its-a-trap.html provides a test of Gecko's protection of users against phishing Web sites. Is there a corresponding Web page

Re: Malware Protection

2014-10-30 Thread David E. Ross
/firefox/its-a-trap.html is blocked But http://www.itisatrap.org/firefox/its-a-trap.html is NOT blocked. That is a difference between 2.26.1 and 2.30. I have been using Netscape Mozilla Suite SeaMonkey for about 20 years and have done okay without the malware protection. I can do without

Re: Malware Protection

2014-10-30 Thread Ray_Net
true: http://www.mozilla.org/firefox/its-a-trap.html is blocked But http://www.itisatrap.org/firefox/its-a-trap.html is NOT blocked. That is a difference between 2.26.1 and 2.30. I have been using Netscape Mozilla Suite SeaMonkey for about 20 years and have done okay without the malware

Re: Malware Protection

2014-10-30 Thread David E. Ross
for about 20 years and have done okay without the malware protection. I can do without it for the time it takes to fix bug #1064639. Both are test page for phishing not for malware ... 2.26.1 should work for phishing and 2.30 should work for phishing and malware. So what ? Is the page http

Re: Malware Protection

2014-10-30 Thread Ray_Net
Mozilla Suite SeaMonkey for about 20 years and have done okay without the malware protection. I can do without it for the time it takes to fix bug #1064639. Both are test page for phishing not for malware ... 2.26.1 should work for phishing and 2.30 should work for phishing and malware. So what

Re: Malware Protection

2014-10-30 Thread »Q«
is blocked But http://www.itisatrap.org/firefox/its-a-trap.html is NOT blocked. That is a difference between 2.26.1 and 2.30. I have been using Netscape Mozilla Suite SeaMonkey for about 20 years and have done okay without the malware protection. I can do without it for the time it takes

Re: Malware Protection

2014-10-30 Thread David E. Ross
is blocked But http://www.itisatrap.org/firefox/its-a-trap.html is NOT blocked. That is a difference between 2.26.1 and 2.30. I have been using Netscape Mozilla Suite SeaMonkey for about 20 years and have done okay without the malware protection. I can do without it for the time it takes

Malware Protection

2014-10-29 Thread David E. Ross
The Web page http://www.itisatrap.org/firefox/its-a-trap.html provides a test of Gecko's protection of users against phishing Web sites. Is there a corresponding Web page for testing Gecko's protection against sites containing malware? -- David E. Ross I am sticking with SeaMonkey 2.26.1 until

Re: Malware Protection

2014-10-29 Thread WaltS48
On 10/29/2014 08:47 PM, David E. Ross wrote: The Web page http://www.itisatrap.org/firefox/its-a-trap.html provides a test of Gecko's protection of users against phishing Web sites. Is there a corresponding Web page for testing Gecko's protection against sites containing malware?

Re: Malware Protection

2014-10-29 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
are taken to https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-does-phishing-and-malware-protection-work, which has a lot of good explanations. -- War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. -- Paul B. Gallagher ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support

Re: Malware Protection

2014-10-29 Thread Geoff Welsh
WaltS48 wrote: On 10/29/2014 08:47 PM, David E. Ross wrote: The Web pagehttp://www.itisatrap.org/firefox/its-a-trap.html provides a test of Gecko's protection of users against phishing Web sites. Interesting. When I open that link in Firefox34.0b4, I get a Reported Web Forgery This web page

Re: Malware Protection

2014-10-29 Thread WaltS48
On 10/29/2014 10:51 PM, Geoff Welsh wrote: WaltS48 wrote: On 10/29/2014 08:47 PM, David E. Ross wrote: The Web pagehttp://www.itisatrap.org/firefox/its-a-trap.html provides a test of Gecko's protection of users against phishing Web sites. Interesting. When I open that link in Firefox34.0b4,

Re: Malware Protection

2014-10-29 Thread »Q«
In news:g-ednt5lmpw-f8zjnz2dnuu7-a-dn...@mozilla.org, David E. Ross nobody@nowhere.invalid wrote: The Web page http://www.itisatrap.org/firefox/its-a-trap.html provides a test of Gecko's protection of users against phishing Web sites. Is there a corresponding Web page for testing Gecko's

Re: Phishing and Malware Protection

2013-01-31 Thread Rob
MCBastos myemail@example.invalid wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 30/01/2013 14:35, Rob told the world: MCBastos myemail@example.invalid wrote: So... Antivirus: missed it Other antivirus: about 75% chance of missing it. Google Safe Browsing: missed it ISP spam filter: flagged it as spam, but

Re: Phishing and Malware Protection

2013-01-30 Thread Daniel
MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 29/01/2013 10:47, Daniel told the world: Rob wrote: Ray_Net tbrraymond.schmit...@tbrscarlet.be wrote: 2. A firefox guy is complaining about lag when accessing web pages .. could this feature slow firefox. This is not very likely. The feature works by

Re: Phishing and Malware Protection

2013-01-30 Thread Rob
Daniel d...@albury.nospam.net.au wrote: MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 29/01/2013 10:47, Daniel told the world: Rob wrote: Ray_Net tbrraymond.schmit...@tbrscarlet.be wrote: 2. A firefox guy is complaining about lag when accessing web pages .. could this feature slow firefox. This is

Re: Phishing and Malware Protection

2013-01-30 Thread Daniel
Rob wrote: Daniel d...@albury.nospam.net.au wrote: MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 29/01/2013 10:47, Daniel told the world: Rob wrote: Ray_Net tbrraymond.schmit...@tbrscarlet.be wrote: 2. A firefox guy is complaining about lag when accessing web pages .. could this feature slow

Re: Phishing and Malware Protection

2013-01-30 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Rob wrote: Yes. That is how it always is. You can never get total protection from a system like this. Even with a system that queries an online server, you have the problem that you may visit a site that is not yet known to serve malware, so the server says OK and you get infected anyway.

Re: Phishing and Malware Protection

2013-01-30 Thread Rob
Daniel d...@albury.nospam.net.au wrote: It is the same with virus scanners. That is why it is always better to setup the system in such a way that software cannot be installed or run as downloaded by the logged-in user. Use a separate account for surfing and for administering the system

Re: Phishing and Malware Protection

2013-01-30 Thread MCBastos
Interviewed by CNN on 30/01/2013 06:57, Daniel told the world: So I could still be visiting phishing sites because my database could, in part, be a week out of date!! There's no guarantees of a complete database anywhere. For instance: I have just received a phishing e-mail, trying to

Re: Phishing and Malware Protection

2013-01-30 Thread MCBastos
Interviewed by CNN on 30/01/2013 14:35, Rob told the world: MCBastos myemail@example.invalid wrote: So... Antivirus: missed it Other antivirus: about 75% chance of missing it. Google Safe Browsing: missed it ISP spam filter: flagged it as spam, but did nothing else. Not that it helps much,

Re: Phishing and Malware Protection

2013-01-29 Thread Rob
Ray_Net tbrraymond.schmit...@tbrscarlet.be wrote: 2. A firefox guy is complaining about lag when accessing web pages .. could this feature slow firefox. This is not very likely. The feature works by downloading a list of infected sites at a certain interval, then storing this list in a local

Re: Phishing and Malware Protection

2013-01-29 Thread Daniel
Rob wrote: Ray_Net tbrraymond.schmit...@tbrscarlet.be wrote: 2. A firefox guy is complaining about lag when accessing web pages .. could this feature slow firefox. This is not very likely. The feature works by downloading a list of infected sites at a certain interval, then storing this list

Re: Phishing and Malware Protection

2013-01-29 Thread MCBastos
Interviewed by CNN on 29/01/2013 10:47, Daniel told the world: Rob wrote: Ray_Net tbrraymond.schmit...@tbrscarlet.be wrote: 2. A firefox guy is complaining about lag when accessing web pages .. could this feature slow firefox. This is not very likely. The feature works by downloading a list

Re: Phishing and Malware Protection

2013-01-29 Thread Rob
Daniel d...@albury.nospam.net.au wrote: Rob wrote: Ray_Net tbrraymond.schmit...@tbrscarlet.be wrote: 2. A firefox guy is complaining about lag when accessing web pages .. could this feature slow firefox. This is not very likely. The feature works by downloading a list of infected sites at

Re: Phishing and Malware Protection

2013-01-29 Thread Philip Chee
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:47:18 +1100, Daniel wrote: Rob wrote: Ray_Net tbrraymond.schmit...@tbrscarlet.be wrote: 2. A firefox guy is complaining about lag when accessing web pages .. could this feature slow firefox. This is not very likely. The feature works by downloading a list of infected

Phishing and Malware Protection

2013-01-28 Thread Ray_Net
I read here http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/phishing-protection/ Firefox 3 or later contains built-in Phishing and Malware Protection to help keep you safe online. The questions are: 1. Would this feature also implemented in SM ? 2. A firefox guy is complaining about lag when accessing

Re: Phishing and Malware Protection

2013-01-28 Thread PhillipJones
Ray_Net wrote: I read here http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/phishing-protection/ Firefox 3 or later contains built-in Phishing and Malware Protection to help keep you safe online. The questions are: 1. Would this feature also implemented in SM ? 2. A firefox guy is complaining about lag

Re: Phishing and Malware Protection

2013-01-28 Thread WaltS
Ray_Net wrote: I read here http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/phishing-protection/ Firefox 3 or later contains built-in Phishing and Malware Protection to help keep you safe online. The questions are: 1. Would this feature also implemented in SM ? 2. A firefox guy is complaining about

Re: Phishing and Malware Protection

2013-01-28 Thread Philip Chee
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 01:02:16 +0100, Ray_Net wrote: I read here http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/phishing-protection/ Firefox 3 or later contains built-in Phishing and Malware Protection to help keep you safe online. The questions are: 1. Would this feature also implemented in SM ? I

Re: Phishing and Malware Protection

2013-01-28 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
WaltS wrote: Ray_Net wrote: I read here http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/phishing-protection/ Firefox 3 or later contains built-in Phishing and Malware Protection to help keep you safe online. The questions are: 1. Would this feature also implemented in SM ? 2. A firefox guy