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Came across the following email on the gnupg-users mail-list. http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2008/03/20/how-to-disable-prefetching-in-firefox-epiphany/ http://lwn.net/Articles/139725/ ----- Forwarded message from Faramir <faramir.cl@xxxxxxxxx> ----- Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:55:20 -0300 From: Faramir <faramir.cl@xxxxxxxxx> To: "gnupg-users@xxxxxxxxx" <gnupg-users@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: OT: virus on the wild? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Rippit the Ogg Frog escribió: >> And the third and last question is: why the AV detected the virus >> _before_ I visited the site? > > Were you using Firefox? It has what I regard as a mis-feature, in which > it preloads at least the top hit of any Google search results. That way > the page will load quicker if you do click its link. Yes, it was FireFox, and the top hit on the Google search results page, was both the infected site, and the site I was looking for. > Your virus is one reason it's a mis-feature. Consider also how much > trouble you could find yourself in, should that top hit be an FBI > pedophile honeypot. Well, it would be less terrible if that happen to somebody living at USA, but it still could cause some problems... > Possibly there is a way to disable the mis-feature, but I don't know > what it is. Bingo! I found it... http://www.technipages.com/disable-the-firefox-prefetch-setting.html > If you weren't using Firefox, possibly other browsers have the > mis-feature now as well. From the titles of the results I didn't click (but maybe FireFox prefetched them, anyway), it seems IE 7 has prefetchs too... Thanks for the message, I have disabled prefetch now. Best Regards -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJJertXAAoJEMV4f6PvczxAq98H/jMmrnqScFTmRvnNHFgItM5U ODiWMdxtKR1Bb1QtkKEDkxqwmkjfuJcrmXNFSAoW9Ln5FwK5XEkFAU/wIZV9ydEK zlKMiMSHotqQ62y3yOdTVkpW71kbALyaseofHm8pmOAV2JtYvLoVAmmgMoLSipxw aeWB09lgoXOVOQ3Wq9q/PQQ7ZacDzq7LPJsHDAr+O6J72qJbbiyTqHAin8z+mso5 dw9Pi6dRLTGFduw1bTpGIsNnNMtCwehL/FwNxHEH95imq+NycIY20Gvvzas4zvQt Na+jyXLcr2qN/T0yV2wB3yNFihzcgP7aTJLOqBuCtTgXwsVMCGj2goE09MX6pqk= =+XRp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@xxxxxxxxx http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Henry Photocopies or faxes of my signature are not binding. This email has been signed with an electronic signature in accordance with subsection 7(3) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000. Digital Key Signature: GPG RSA 0xFB447AA1 Sat Jan 24 12:15:55 GMT 2009
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