Mozilla Security

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I've never found a need for apps like that using Mozilla.
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I think one of the more major functions of spyware guard is to prevent
spyware from installing locally, eg when bundled in another software.
Mozilla alone won't protect you from that.





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I think one of the more major functions of spyware guard is to prevent
spyware from installing locally, eg when bundled in another software.
Mozilla alone won't protect you from that.
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True, but I've never experienced that. And I try out quite a bit of
freeware. Same goes for malware in general. No realtime av and no
problems. I've simply never found a good reason to burden my system
with "protection" software. Sure as hell if I loaded up my system with
some of that crap I'd soon take a hit because I wouldn't be as careful
with what I download :)


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And said:
And said:
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 00:51:26 GMT, fitwell

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 13:55:57 GMT, Christopher Jahn

And it came to pass that wrote:
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I just found this in Firefox - hopefully it does the job
for one aspect at least, that of disabling Javascript:

Tools > Options > Web Features > Enable JavaScript
unticked.
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That'll do it, but be aware that many sites - particulary
banking sites - rely on javascript.

The advanced button gives you some more options.

But by and large, javascript can't make Mozilla do anything
terrible, AFAIK. Most exploits rely on IE and its
integration with the OS.
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Hallelujah and I hope that's the way it is. I unticked
JavaScript only to have to keep ticking it as many things
don't work! <g>

So last major thing is to get security up to tight in IE,
apparently. I'll be tackling that next in my Firefox.
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Firefox and IE have nothing in common. Nothing you do to
firefox will have the slightest affect on IE, and vice versa -
except that IE will expose you to hundreds of exploits that
can steal data from your hardrive or overwrite files.



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A few weeks ago I finally got round to using Mozilla (v1.6) browser
and email instead of IE/OE, but am left wondering if I am now immune
to all of the exploits inherent in MS software.

The latest SCOB trojan is an example. It seems this is a server side
exploit using java to infect user systems. Does Mozilla use java and
is Mozilla just as vunerable as IE to this kind of trojan ?

I can't see any settings for java or active-x in the Navigator
Security preferences dialogs.

TIA
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You might find these of interest (I'm using Mozilla 1.5 at this time):

http://mozilla.gunnars.net/mozilla_privacy_and_security_tutorial.html
http://prefbar.mozdev.org/
 
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