On 10/12/09 21:10, Tejas Guruswamy wrote:
On 09/12/09 23:39, Basil Chupin wrote:
I came across this when I went looking for "about:blank":
The term "about:blank" is also the generic name for a group of variants of the CoolWebSearch <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoolWebSearch> malware <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware> program group.
but apparently may also be used for advertisements.
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about:blank in Internet Explorer can be hijacked by certain Windows malware (so that it no longer displays a blank page, but ads, and since about:blank is used everywhere you see a lot of ads) but that does not mean the url about:blank itself is malicious, especially on Linux.
OK, thanks muchly. I accept the part about Linux and about:blank. I now feel less paranoid re it in oS. But I do not accept the generalisation that "about:blank itself is not malicious": if something like this can be hijacked and can be used for malware then it *is* malicious - and it's use should be either removed or have protection in place to prevent it from being hijacked. BC -- If you don't succeed you run the risk of failure. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org