FreeLists / arachne / [arachne] Re: [a4dos-list] Re: Not accepting incoming?

["Samuel W. Heywood" <sheywood@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Sun, 9 Oct 2005 12:07:43 -0600 (CST), Glenn Gilbreath Jr. wrote:

> Samuel,
> If ONLY those MS users would listen to those of us that offer
> advice!!!  You don't even need a "popup blocker" (although I
> do have one for my Win95 system!), all the user needs to do is
> set the Options for "scripting languages" to "always ask user
> for permission" or whatever the current version states.  I run
> MS IE 5.01 SP2 sometimes with this option enforced...only the
> popups that I need are allowed to open.

The problem is that you don't know in advance whether the popup
in question is one that you need.  The spammers and hackers and
virus writers who get through to you via popup windows do not
have the courtesy to advise you up front that you don't need any
of their incoming swarms of bugs.

>I have yet to see a popup window that wasn't JavaScript or ActiveX
>driven.  If you choose to not allow the script to run, you can simply
>close the little empty browser window.

Some web sites require you to allow JavaScript and ActiveX to run in order
to use the site.  Some of the FEMA web sites are like that.

Also you cannot always simply close the little empty browser window.  What
if the the little window is a sticky-stay infected with the JS/NoClose virus
or one of its variants?  If you ever get one of those, your little window
will stay open while all the bugs will keep swarming in from everywhere.

Sam Heywood
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