Re: Security alert

2005-07-18 Thread Michael Lefevre
On 2005-07-18, Vrodok the Troll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18 Jul 2005 14:04:21 GMT, in netscape.public.mozilla.security, Michael Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED], by way of Message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote: [snip] There was a problem with the release, which was discovered with Firefox first, so

Re: Disabling Flash

2005-02-20 Thread Michael Lefevre
On 2005-02-19, Anthony G. Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do my eyes deceive me, or is there no way to disable Flash in Firefox? If there's no way to prevent Flash from being displayed, this is a security breach. Only if there's a security flaw in Flash itself. If you don't trust the Flash

Re: do extensions compromise the security of mozilla/firefox?

2004-09-30 Thread Michael Lefevre
On 2004-10-01, Mike Henley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I'm using mozilla and mozilla firefox. I often install extensions though only through the usual websites (mozilla.org, mozdev, texturizer). Today though I tried to install an extension from http://jgillick.nettripper.com/ and as such

Re: fewer virus, etc. attacks with Mozilla ?

2004-06-16 Thread Michael Lefevre
On 2004-06-16, Jean-Marc Desperrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Lefevre wrote: On 2004-06-11, Jean-Marc Desperrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As 1.4.1 is it's most recent version publicly available [snip] Actually it's not - 1.4.2 was released a few weeks ago, and binaries

Re: Could we use PKI encryption to identify non-spam ?

2004-06-02 Thread Michael Lefevre
On 2004-06-02, Tomas Svoboda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody! Let me suggest an idea that could help to separate spam from non-spam: If I receive a message encrypted with PKI (=encrypted using MY public key) - that means that very probably I have sent email to that person during the

Re: Mozilla security bug policy

2004-03-25 Thread Michael Lefevre
On 2004-03-24, Daniel Veditz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Bucksch wrote: I forgot: * There are currently 36 fixed, hidden bugs. Some of them fixed a year ago. I will be updating the vulnerabilities page (and unhiding bugs) for the 1.7 release, I'll make sure to check the

Re: Mozilla security bug policy

2004-03-25 Thread Michael Lefevre
On 2004-03-25, Daniel Veditz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We will be including Firefox and Thunderbird information on the vulnerabilities page going forward and testing against them. Excellent. Thanks. -- Michael ___ Mozilla-security mailing list

Re: Firefox needs server privileges?

2004-03-08 Thread Michael Lefevre
On 2004-03-07, Tookelso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Zone Alarm asks me if I want to allow firefox.exe to ask as a server. What does firefox need server privileges for? Firstly, you're in the wrong group here - see http://www.mozilla.org/community/user-forums.html for where you should have

Re: Header-Infomation

2004-02-15 Thread Michael Lefevre
On 2004-02-15, Konrad Mader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, the Mozilla-Browser and Mail-Client show Mozilla-Version and OS-Version to everybody like this: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; de-AT; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 I think that is insecure. It isn't really. But maybe you don't want

Re: 128-bit encryption not supported by Mozilla 1.3 ?

2003-03-26 Thread Michael Lefevre
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], KUROSAKA Teruhiko wrote: Hogarth wrote: After I upgraded Mozilla from 1.2.1 to 1.3, I tried accessing https://home.da-us.citibank.com/signin/indexkiosk.htm with Mozilla 1.3 but the site returned an error page stating: To use Direct Access, you need a browser

Re: Long attachement file-names.

2002-12-30 Thread michael lefevre
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nelson B. Bolyard wrote: Grey Hodge / jesus X wrote: On 12/27/2002 9:18 PM Nelson B. Bolyard cranked up the brainbox and said: Decisions about whether a file is safe for some purpose should be made based on the MIME content type, not the file name or

Re: Why giving programmeres so hard times?

2002-12-15 Thread michael lefevre
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], TGOS wrote: On 24 Nov 2002 01:16:52 GMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Bucksch) wrote in netscape.public.mozilla.security: And if *you* expect to be taken serious, then follow the charter of the newsgroups you post to. http://www.mozilla.org/community.html

Re: Newbie needs help

2002-09-04 Thread michael lefevre
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Larry H. wrote: I can't access my online banking with Netscape 7.0. I am fairly new to Netscape ( I fooled around with 4.7). I would love to switch from Bill's IE, but need to bank online. Where do I start? well you could start by posting in a more

Re: Newbie needs help

2002-09-04 Thread michael lefevre
In article al4ucc$1nfbu6$[EMAIL PROTECTED], michael lefevre wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Larry H. wrote: I can't access my online banking with Netscape 7.0. I am fairly new to Netscape ( I fooled around with 4.7). I would love to switch from Bill's IE, but need to bank online

Re: Secure (SSL) transactions in tabbed Moz 0.9.9

2002-04-11 Thread michael lefevre
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rudolph van der Merwe wrote: [snip] 'security icon' (padlock on bottom right of Moz window) only relates to the security info of the first tab (original window). If I open a new tabbed window and then go to a secured website, the icon does not 'lock'. Also, when