full-disclosure - A Popup! In Mozilla!

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From: kiwi at oav.net (Xavier Beaudouin)
Subject: A Popup! In Mozilla!

Le 21 juil. 04, ? 06:13, James Woodcock a ?crit :

> This might seem like it should be going to a webdev list, but there's 
> a possible security implication, so here goes;
>
> http://2-spyware.com/file-cnfrm-exe.html
>
> In Mozilla 1.5 and FireFox 0.9 with the pop-up blocker turned on, I 
> get a pop-up! It's purporting to be an important notice from my 
> Network Administrator - you'll probably recognise it;
>
> http://2-spyware.com/images/2SPYRR1C.gif
>
> Looking at the source of the page, I see that the pop-up is being 
> generated by a <DIV> statement that comes after the closing </html> 
> tag  which - I thought - was supposed to indicate the end of the 
> document.

This is not a popup as you think it is... It is plain <div></> html 
with html layers.

In fact you have think it is a popup because it looks like a Windows XP 
dialog box. For example on other OS (OS X, Linux, W2k, .... whatever) 
you see that this dialog box is not from browser but a fake one...

This kind of ads with layers are more and more common... See Lycos 
webhosting for example, all ads are shown like this...

/Xavier

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