<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7c7402e8-efca-4225-86f0-a55cf2935ea5/28F52868-0DB4-4153-9310-310E55A6D4B2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.stopbadware.org/" href="http://blog.stopbadware.org/" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.stopbadware.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.stopbadware.org/"><DIV class="post"> <DIV class="post-title"><H2><A class="" rel="" href="http://blog.stopbadware.org/2009/09/03/even-linux-users-see-effects-of-bad-code">Even Linux users see effects of bad code</A></H2></DIV> <SPAN class="auth">Posted by Maxim Weinstein <SPAN title="2009-09-03T10:35:00-04:00" class="published"><SPAN title="Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:42:37 GMT" class="typo_date date gmttimestamp-1251988957">Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:42:37 GMT</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> <DIV class="post-body"> <P>Over on our community site, BadwareBusters.org, <A href="http://badwarebusters.org/main/itemview/8470">user DrHenley reports ill effects</A> from visiting a badware site using Firefox on Ubuntu:</p> <P>I could not close FireFox, and it required a reboot to stop the popups. After rebooting the first time I ran FireFox a tab called “My Computer???” came up with the bogus antivirus supposedly scanning the C:\Windows\System folder…(in Ubuntu – <SPAN><SPAN class="caps">ROFL</SPAN></SPAN>), but I was able to close the tab that time, and it didn’t come back after that.</p> <P>While there’s no evidence that badware penetrated beyond the browser into the OS, this user’s experience does show that the browser can be a point of vulnerability, even on Linux.</p> </DIV> <P class="meta">Tags <A rel="tag" href="http://blog.stopbadware.org/tag/linux">linux</A></p> </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/28F52868-0DB4-4153-9310-310E55A6D4B2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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