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| Time: 10:35 EST/15:35 GMT | News Source: PC World | Posted By: John Quigley | ||
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SAN FRANCISCO -- A group of self-titled "political activists" in Massachusetts has started an aggressive campaign to get browser users to switch from Microsoft's Internet Explorer to Mozilla's Firefox. Taking advantage of a new program by Google, the campaign, called Explorer Destroyer, pays users $1 for each referral to Firefox made through Google Toolbar, according to the group's Web site. "You already want people to switch to Firefox. Now's the time to get serious about it," according to the site. "Google is paying $1 for each new Firefox user you refer....Now you can advance your ideals, save people from popups and spyware hell, and make some serious money." | ||
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| #1 By 32132 (64.180.219.241) at 4/26/2006 11:24:48 AM |
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Considering how many holes they are discovering in Firefox every day, I'd be surprised if the hackers haven't chipped in for this fund.
http://www.informationweek.com/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=186700930&subSection=Viruses+and+Patches "A zero-day vulnerability in a fully-patched and most-current version of Mozilla Corp.'s Firefox could be exploited to crash the browser at the least, and at the worst, possibly introduce malicious code, a security company warned Tuesday. " This post was edited by NotParker on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 at 11:30. |
| #2 By 37 (67.37.29.142) at 4/26/2006 11:32:34 AM |
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You know it's a sad, pathetic desparate measure when you have to PAY people to use your browser.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA |
| #3 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 4/26/2006 11:49:36 AM |
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#1: Secunia rated it as a low-risk bug, but that fact somehow didn't make it into your rant. Funny that. According to you, it's the end of the world.
And why would hackers chip in to any Firerfox fund when they can get all the holes they could ever exploit in IE for free? |
| #4 By 1474 (160.125.253.12) at 4/26/2006 11:53:07 AM |
| It's running windows, not much of a kill, people must feel they are doing something - love my MAC/WIN |
| #5 By 32132 (64.180.219.241) at 4/26/2006 12:47:39 PM |
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"And why would hackers chip in to any Firerfox fund "
Because its easy to exploit. http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=31952&src=site-marq "A dirt-cheap, do-it-yourself hacking kit sold by a Russian website is being used by more than 1,000 malicious websites, a security company said on Monday. Those sites have confiscated hundreds of thousands of computers using the "smartbomb" kit, which sniffs for seven unpatched vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer and Firefox, then attacks the easiest-to-exploit weakness." |
| #6 By 32132 (64.180.219.241) at 4/26/2006 12:50:17 PM |
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#3 "Secunia rated it as a low-risk bug"
Secunia tends to minimize open source problems. Others disagree. http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=31938&src=site-marq "A zero-day vulnerability in a fully-patched and most-current version of Mozilla's Firefox could be exploited to crash the browser at the least, and at the worst, possibly introduce malicious code, a security company warned Tuesday." |
| #7 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 4/26/2006 1:03:07 PM |
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#5: Easier than rooting IE? Tis to laugh, sirrah. The article you linked to mainly talked about exploiting holes in IE.
#6: of course they do -- it's all a conspiracy against Microsoft. As for that straw you grasped at, just because Symantec says that maybe, possibly some code could perhaps run we guess... do I need to say any more? There were so many weasel-words in that article that I couldn't really tell what they were trying to say. I think they were saying that a bug in FF could crash the browser, but there's a boogeyman in your closet. Or something like that. |
| #8 By 32132 (64.180.219.241) at 4/26/2006 4:11:53 PM |
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#7 Nice try at weaseling.
Its a buffer overflow. Buffer overlows lead to arbitrary code execution. http://www.securident.com/vuln/ff.txt "A handling issue exists in how Firefox handles certain Javascript in js320.dll and xpcom_core.dll regarding iframe.contentWindow.focus(). By manipulating this feature a buffer overflow will occur." http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1993 "Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via certain Javascript that is not properly handled by the contentWindow.focus method in an iframe, which leads to a buffer overflow in (1) js320.dll and (2) xpcom_core.dll. " This post was edited by NotParker on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 at 16:13. |
| #9 By 3653 (68.52.143.149) at 4/26/2006 7:36:54 PM |
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$1? no way.
When they are willing to pay me, say, $10... I'll use it. lol @ FF's sad state of affairs... needing to pay to have the browser installed. |
| #10 By 9589 (66.56.133.0) at 4/26/2006 9:08:50 PM |
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha !!!!
This is great! First they got the open sore crowd behind it and then, they got the tech scribblers behind it and still more then 9 out 10 users prefer IE. Now, lol, they are paying people to use that shot full of holes misfirefox!!! What's next???? Hey! I know! Let's get the goverment of Munich crowd to adopt misfirefox . . . lol Paying people to use it . . . This has got to be an Onion or BBSpot satire . . . isn't it??? By the way, I got a clue for the sponsor(s) of this dufus ploy - negative advertising doesn't work. |
| #11 By 12071 (203.185.215.149) at 4/27/2006 12:15:27 AM |
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It definitely is funny when "four friends and full-time political activists from Massachusetts" can cause all the members of the "anything as long as it's Microsoft" crowd here to blow their gasket. You guys should check out their other site:- http://www.killbillsbrowser.com/ although do be careful, we wouldn't want you to pop a vain or anything like that.
"7. It will make Bill Gates soooooooooo mad. Seriously-- super, super mad. And even more than Bill, let's think about Steve "I'm going to fucking kill Google" Ballmer for a second (actual quote). If there's anyone that's going to absolutely blow a gasket when they see this website, it will be him." As for the $1/switch - Capitalism at it's greatest... someone's going to get rich trying :) #10 "negative advertising doesn't work." WTF? Of course it works - which is why it was employed during the elections as one of many examples I can provide you with! One side just completely outdid the other... and it worked very well for them! |
| #12 By 32132 (64.180.219.241) at 4/27/2006 1:56:48 AM |
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#11 "blow their gasket"?
There is a difference between blowing a gasket and laughing at the geeks who play with Penguin dolls. We were laughing at you Kabuki boy. |
| #13 By 5912 (62.58.60.27) at 4/27/2006 2:28:22 AM |
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As a Firefox-user I DEMAND that everybody stand on their heads RIGHT NOW!
Seriously: I am not shure why this 'story' grabs so much attention. These people have nothing to do with FF and what they want to do can't be taken seriously. |
| #14 By 12071 (203.185.215.149) at 4/27/2006 5:53:53 AM |
| #12 Is that what you were doing in posts #1, #5, #6, #8 and now #12? Funny, it looked like you were scrambling to do anything, anything at all in your power, to shift the focus off IE being a security sieve. It looked like you were actually worried or even scared that four political activists could in some way bring harm to the almighty Microsoft. The rest of us on the other hand, well the ones that realise that there is software outside of Redmond, laughed that these guys were trying to make some money in such a way and also had a good chuckle with their kill bill page. |
| #15 By 37 (67.37.29.142) at 4/27/2006 1:32:30 PM |
| What's next? If the open sores zealots can't PAY us to use their products, are they going to THREATEN us if we don't!? |
| #16 By 32132 (64.180.219.241) at 4/27/2006 2:11:24 PM |
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#14 "Is that what you were doing in posts #1 ..."
I thought post #1 was funny ... if you had a sense of humor. Still laughing at you Kabuki boy. |
| #17 By 3653 (68.52.143.149) at 4/27/2006 5:17:59 PM |
| AWBrian, you are EXACTLY right. Reference Massachusetts and the OpenDoc spec. That is a THREAT. Or check out the EU and their THREATS lately. |
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