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Posted on 08-16-08 04:57:38 PM (last edited by Darkdata at 08-16-08 02:00 PM) Link | Quote
No, Macs are not immune

Originally posted by The Reg

A new web-based attack is making the rounds that tries to spread poisonous links by hijacking end users' clipboards.

Forum discussions ... all report the same thing: the commenter surfs to a seemingly legitimate site (MSNBC.com comes up more than once) and suddenly a malicious link is copied to the clipboard. The rogue link remains even after the user copies a new batch of text. The only way to remove it is to reboot the computer.


So yeah, reading the posts it seems safari, firefox and a few other broswers have been affected by it. There seems to be some argument over what does it though. :/

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Posted on 08-16-08 06:19:27 PM (last edited by Xkeeper at 08-17-08 09:14 PM) Link | Quote
The Spyware Sucks blog posits here that banner ads transmitting bad Adobe Flash code is responsible, and that makes sense to us.


Or: disable plugins and javascript. Problem McSolved™

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Posted on 08-16-08 10:15:55 PM (last edited by Darkdata at 08-16-08 07:21 PM) Link | Quote
Originally posted by hydrapheetz
The Spyware Sucks blog posits here that banner ads transmitting bad Adobe Flash code is responsible, and that makes sense to us.

Or: disable plugins and javascript. Problem McSolved™


Noscript+Adblock-Plus also works really well.

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Posted on 08-16-08 11:08:45 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Darkdata
Originally posted by hydrapheetz
The Spyware Sucks blog posits here that banner ads transmitting bad Adobe Flash code is responsible, and that makes sense to us.

Or: disable plugins and javascript. Problem McSolved™


Noscript+Adblock-Plus also works really well.



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Posted on 08-18-08 12:16:47 AM Link | Quote
I think it's something you really can't defend against (although it staying in the clipboard is much stranger).

The only real way to prevent something like this is to stop a program from modifying the clipboard; but consider that doing that would remove the clipboard's use entirely.

Even the most obvious path (preventing Flash from modifying the clipboard) is impossible, since many games use the clipboard to store data (e.g., created levels, character information, whatever).

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Posted on 08-18-08 04:06:01 AM Link | Quote
Eh? What ever happened to global variables?
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Posted on 08-18-08 08:02:37 PM Link | Quote
What does that have to do with this conversation?

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Posted on 08-19-08 12:44:13 AM Link | Quote
Global variables seem like a lot better place to store created levels, character information, etc. than in the clipboard. If it's imperative to get data from Flash to the user's hard disk, just prepare the data server-side and initialize a download.
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