SillyDog701

[Edward]

People really have to be VERY AWARE of where they browse on the web today.

Just the other evening, I was watching one of the business shows on cable, and they reported the top three items sold online.

Books was # 1, and the second-highest (both by dollar amount) is not acceptable to mention in this forum.

UserAgent: Opera/7.51 (X11; Linux i586; U) [en]

[akbash]

#3 is garden gnomes, isn't it? Yeah, I'm gonna make a killing.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040704 Firefox/0.8.0+

[Fulvio]

I don't think that this is surprising, nor of much interest here, but Compuserve7.0, which is based on Mozilla0.9.4, and AOL9.0, both the original, and a later build are vulnerable.
May be someone at AOL does know what's going on( i.e. NS7.2)

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Weblemur/0.9.1

[Fulvio]

Internet Explorer6 vulnerability can be defeated by disabling in the Internet Security settings(custom): "Navigate sub frames across domains.
This was brought up at Ramona's windows BBS forum. I fiddle with all setting in Netscape7.1, with no success, so far.
Of course, all IE-based programs, including AOL9.0 are also protected, since they use the IE settings.
Now what?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

[Edward]

Some members of the My Opera Community have reported seeing Opera 7.52 UserAgent strings in some of the newsgroup messages, so Opera might be working on it.

UserAgent: Opera/7.51 (X11; Linux i586; U) [en]

[Fulvio]

A security friend of mine said that the protection of IE and AOL is legit, but also that not many websites use sub-frames, so the test is misleading. His feeling is to stay away from Active X as much as possible.
He loves Firefox0.9.1.

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; AOL 9.0; Windows NT 5.1; BCD2000)

[Jeffredo]

Opera 7.52 is on the Opera FTP server, but not yet on their website download. I installed it, ran the test at Secunia and it passed. Typical Opera (quick to fix)!

UserAgent: Opera/7.52 (Windows NT 5.1; U) [en]

[Mandrake]

I prefer already being protected against this

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

[Don_HH2K]

I prefer already being protected against this

It seems we have little time that we will have to wait for a NS7.2, judging by the new test site.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax)

[Don_HH2K]

Just an idea if this might be a workaround for NS7.1 and other Mozilla releases prior to 1.7

In my c:\Program Files\Common Files\Mozilla.org, I have two folders: One for 1.4 final and one for 1.7 beta (I used that for awhile). Lets say that I was to move the files from the 1.7beta folder to the 1.4 final folder. Would that work at all, or would I get large crash problems?

EDIT- No, it doesn't work...

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax)

[Fulvio]

People really have to be VERY AWARE of where they browse on the web today.

Just the other evening, I was watching one of the business shows on cable, and they reported the top three items sold online.

Books was # 1, and the second-highest (both by dollar amount) is not acceptable to mention in this forum.

I doubt that the people involved got trapped into buying the unmentionable items. I also read of the large percentage of people who are indignant at receiving any amount of spam, and I agree 100%. But the same survey said that 20% will order Spam stuff. That's why we keep getting the ugly stuff.
It is good to use software which will not allow any stranger in, but if they set their mind to it, anything can become unsafe. But, who needs to work hard if we use Windows, so good for you.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616