![]() What makes it even worse is that most of their staff believes Windows malware will infect a machine running Linux. What is needed is a quantum jump in security. I will say it a million times – a policy of enumerating the bad just doesn’t work very well. Yahoo’s email blocked the message even with a preceding “hxxp://” instead of an “ The phish was already gone. I also added filter rules to the PAC filter to prevent it from happening to unknown threats to Wachovia bank customers. This same thing happened to me the other day on the Wachovia bank phish I reported to PhishTank. Most of the time the stuff you have identified as bad they didn’t even know about it (their bot detection software), and they continue to block it long after it is no longer bad. I have even given it a name in my firewall rules: worm-1. How are they going to know what is bad if they don’t have all of the people like me doing this research to inform them of the bad stuff? Are they prepared to handle all of that research? Right now I can connect to my broadband router and see that I am still being pelted by a worm on port 27977 on the WAN side. They continued to come even after I stopped doing research on the malware for my filters except for cleaning up: I have had multiple emails from Comcast about my infected LINUX powered machines. “It is a Comcast method that applies preference changes to Firefox.” “This is NOT a Firefox bug or issue,” a Mozilla spokesperson wrote in an email. Mozilla denies this, and says it’s Comcast’s doing. I contacted Comcast they initially blamed the problem on a bug in Firefox. My friend later discovered that his homepage had been changed to, and that Comcast software had modified his Firefox profile so that there was no way to change the homepage setting. The technician who arrived to turn on the service said that a software package from Comcast was necessary to complete the installation. ![]() ![]() I heard this from a friend who’d just signed up for Comcast’s Xfinity high-speed Internet service and soon discovered some behavior on his Mac that is akin to Windows malware - something had hijacked his Internet settings. The software is unfriendly to Mac users running Firefox: It changes the browser’s homepage to, and blocks users from changing it to anything else. Comcast says it is revamping the software that new customers need to install to start service with the ISP. ![]()
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