On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Rony <[email protected]> wrote: > It was just that but my query is how secure is browsing in Linux if > javascript is enabled, given the fact that this sticky window would > refuse to go? Does enabling of scripting in firefox bypass the Unix file > self execute permission barrier? > That sticky window won't do anything more than just annoy you. If it wants to do some damage to your data I suspect it will have to get you to:
1) Download the malicious program 2) Chmod it to give it execute permissions 3) Execute it And to do some real damage to your system and not just your data it will have to also do: 4) Ask for sudo or root password. If someone actually goes through all of these steps to infect himself/herself with some worm/malware then I guess [s]he has earned it and we should congratulate him/her for the achievement ;) -- Siddhesh Poyarekar http://siddhesh.in -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
