- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:51:31 -0400
On 7/22/10 4:46 PM, Luke Hutchison wrote: > A bookmark is more like a link than a manually-entered URL What would prevent the viruses in question from saying "drag this link to your bookmarks bar and then click the bookmark"? Note that this is something that sites actually do... not necessarily commonly, but often enough. http://www.google.com/reader/settings the "Goodies" tab is an example. Or http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ for that matter. > 99.9999% of people have never manually entered a javascript: URL into a > browser addressbar in their life -- unless duped by a social engineering > virus. I agree, but the duping for bookmarks seems just as simple.... -Boris
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