Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
Ed Mullen wrote:
Rick Merrill wrote:
Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
Some sites really don't want to let me leave -- they pop up this nag
when I try to close their window.
E.g., <http://www.mylife.com/>
Is it harmless enough to click "Yes, I really do want you to fuck off,"
or should I panic and close the entire browser/email program with
CTRL-Q
and never return?
Never click anything on such a site. They may have reprogrammed the
"kill' button to give permission to download an EXE trojan.
Yes, but downloading an .exe file isn't going to cause any harm. RUNNING
the program will. So, no harm in clicking the button, SM won't allow
running the file, only saving it.
Even better, is there a setting in SeaMonkey that will prevent them
from
pulling this? Preferably one that doesn't cripple thousands of other
innocuous sites doing legitimate stuff...
Turn off javascript.
Exactly the baby-with-bathwater kind of solution I'm trying to avoid.
It's the only one I know of. If you want a solution, there it is. Not
ideal, but that's how they do it and that's how you prevent it.
You asked, I told. ;-)
--
Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net/
Everyone has a photographic memory, some just don't have any film.
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