[35941] in bugtraq
Re: New possible scam method : forged websites using XUL (Firefox)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nicholas Knight)
Mon Aug 2 18:10:26 2004
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Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 12:43:36 -0700
From: Nicholas Knight <nknight@runawaynet.com>
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Marc wrote:
> The latest version of Firefox is 0.9.2.
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>>The developers of Mozilla are currently looking into various
>>methods to make a fake user interface more obvious. The most
>>likely solution will be to force the status bar to always be
>>visible, as Microsoft will do with IE6 SP2.
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> This appears to be the case with 0.9.2.
Tools -> Options -> Web Features -> Advanced button by Java/Javascript
check boxes. I'll bet you have "Hide the status bar" unchecked.
This caught me for a moment, too, then I remembered I always disable
everything in the Advanced JavaScript Options box, and that's one of
them. So users actually have a defence right now, but they have to
specifically set it themselves.
