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Re: New possible scam method : forged websites using XUL (Firefox)
From: Michael Reilly <michaelr () cisco com>
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 12:10:08 -0700
Along the same lines I took a look at the spoof using my customized firefox and it was an obvious fake -
1. The font is wrong 2. The window size is wrong (it is twice the width of my browser window and almost 50% longer) 3. The fake toolbar was below my toolbar so both were viable 4. The address bar was also in the wrong place so I had two. 5. I also had two status barsIsn't a possible solution to disable any overlaying of existing elements (toolbar, status bar, address bar, etc.) once they are loaded from the browser's and user's on disk config? Lock them even before opening a socket to connect to a site.
Of course if there is an exploit to modify the on disk files then this won't work.
michael Peter J. Holzer wrote:
On 2004-08-02 11:59:17 +0200, Peter J. Holzer wrote:* add a UI to the "allow javascript only from trusted sites" feature. (few people know that mozilla can do that, and even for those, editinguser.js is tedious).More on the lines of "few people know that Mozilla can do that": Daniel Veditz wrote in <URL:http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22183#c97>: | Or we could just force the location bar to be on using the existing | pref, but obviously there must be some reluctance to that or it'd be | done already. So I started to look for the "existing pref", and sure enough, if you write user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.location", true); in your prefs.js, the spoof looks much less convincing. (You can also set this preference via "about:config".) hp
-- ---- ---- ---- Michael Reilly michaelr () cisco com Cisco Systems, California
Current thread:
- RE: New possible scam method : forged websites using XUL (Firefox) Thomas T. Evans, III (Aug 02)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: New possible scam method : forged websites using XUL (Firefox) Peter J. Holzer (Aug 02)
- Re: New possible scam method : forged websites using XUL (Firefox) Peter J. Holzer (Aug 03)
- Re: New possible scam method : forged websites using XUL (Firefox) Kim Scarborough (Aug 03)
- Re: New possible scam method : forged websites using XUL (Firefox) Michael Reilly (Aug 03)
- Re: New possible scam method : forged websites using XUL (Firefox) Peter J. Holzer (Aug 03)
- Re: New possible scam method : forged websites using XUL (Firefox) Nicholas Knight (Aug 02)