Hi Folks As this has split into two threads, I'm gonna confuse everyone and reply to both in one.
Firefox - hasn't there just been a security breach with FF's extensions whereby some of them don't conform to using SSL to update so can be duped to update from a interposing server? Running FF securely - isn't the idea of running FF under a seperate usre basically what the kernal peeps are trying to do with their 'Containers' proposals? I admit that like chris R, it seems like a good idea to pursue for that "just in case" feeling, but it's a pain if you want to do something and just need to Google it.. E -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of luxxius Sent: 20 June 2007 17:58 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu (linux) vulnerabilty?? Comment please alan c wrote: > With Ubuntu in mind I would be grateful for more information about the > possible vulnerability - or not - of the sort of malware (trojan) > which is likely to be used in the sort of current, and on a new scale, > attack via infected websites as described in the Guardian: > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2106855,00.html > > My initial reaction is of course that linux doe snot install anything > without a password, but then I remembered that in my user activities I > was able to install a firefox extension without a password (I think), > and in principle I can install into my user area with no password > generally. > > So could a trojan be installed easily from an infected website without > my knowledge? Wasn't Nixory intended to deal with malware affecting Linux web browsers? But there no longer seem to be any updates to Nixory. Anyone know what's happened to this project? -- Diana -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
