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New Massive Botnet Twice the Size of Storm (Dark Reading)New Massive Botnet Twice the Size of Storm (Dark Reading)Posted Apr 7, 2008 20:23 UTC (Mon) by wertigon (guest, #42963)In reply to: New Massive Botnet Twice the Size of Storm (Dark Reading) by allenp Parent article: New Massive Botnet Twice the Size of Storm (Dark Reading)
Actually, this has to do with MIME-types, and is a browser flaw, not an OS-flaw. Try serving that same jpeg with whatever the executable MIME-type is (application/executable maybe?) and you'll see Firefox do what it normally does to executables. I can see a user clicking "execute" here...
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New Massive Botnet Twice the Size of Storm (Dark Reading) Posted Apr 8, 2008 5:39 UTC (Tue) by muwlgr (guest, #35359) [Link] Had you ever tried to check your suggestion by yourself ? Firefox and Seamonkey do not offer "open by default" or "execute" for downloadable executable files. Under Windows, at least.
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