Ubuntu :: "alien" Tabs In Firefox Browser / Block To Phishing?
Jun 11, 2010
This is happening me for more than a year and despite I talk Google but they never do anything.
Okay, I have saved 3 tabs in the browser always.But from time to time the following sites shows up in my browser without my authorization:
1- http://www.en.com/
2- http://www..%0a/
3- etc
Why this is still happening?How can I block them to phishing (yes?) me?
Why those people FORCE me to visit (or buy their products) without my permission?
That is INVASION of PRIVACITY!
If I Go to my "Firefox Preferences" and I set my preferences HOW is possible that they can re-set them?
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May 25, 2010
Most Internet users know to watch for the telltale signs of a traditional phishing attack: An e-mail that asks you to click on a link and enter your e-mail or banking credentials at the resulting Web site. But a new phishing concept that exploits user inattention and trust in browser tabs is likely to fool even the most security-conscious Web surfers.As Mozilla Firefox creative lead Aza Raskin describes it, the attack is as elegant as it is simple: A user has multiple tabs open, and surfs to a site that uses special javacript code to silently alter the contents of a tabbed page along with the information displayed on the tab itself, so that when the user switches back to that tab it appears to be the login page for a site the user normally visits.
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Like right now I tried taking a screenshot, and it tells me
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Top shows an average usage of less than 10% average. Xorg is always 25%, kwin is always 10% and then rest of the apps are less than that.
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 620 Processor
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When I ssh into the computer with x tunneling, the programs start up faster than being on the desktop
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[code]...
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Code:
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