On Tue, 26 Sep 2023 12:06:46 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry <henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
> I stumbled onto a very bad website: > d1ykbfcai6wsme dot cloudfront dot net slash werrx01 slash > phone=+1 dash 888 dash 387 dash 3976 &# . > firefox went fullscreen and kept telling me that > my computer was locked because, without my knowledge, > The mouse would only show up on the > always-on-top window of an expired timer. > How is that sort of thing done and > how do I keep it from happening again? I think it is done by running javascript through your version of firefox. Do you have noscript add-on installed? That will block any javascript from a site, and you will have to turn on the urls that you want to be able to run javascript. I'm not sure how effective that would be in this case, since cloudfront.net is often needed because many sites use it as their host. But, I expect that the problem url would show up differently in noscript, and you would be able to leave it disabled. Usually, cloudfront.net is disabled automatically for other urls. I'm not willing to test that expectation, for obvious reasons. :-) You could test whether this is the solution by installing noscript, shutting down and restarting firefox to clear the cache of allowed sites (that is a setting in the privacy tab), and then visiting the site again. The site should be blocked, and you can click on the noscript icon to see the list of urls that have been blocked from running javascript. If you want to experience the thrill again, you can allow javascript from the above problem address for confirmation. Then, turn it off, and the recovery is what you have already discovered. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
