Re: New possible scam method : forged websites using XUL (Firefox)

[Nicholas Knight <nknight@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marc wrote:

> The latest version of Firefox is 0.9.2.
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>
> > The developers of Mozilla are currently looking into various
> > methods to make a fake user interface more obvious.  The most
> > likely solution will be to force the status bar to always be
> > visible, as Microsoft will do with IE6 SP2.
>
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> This appears to be the case with 0.9.2.

Tools -> Options -> Web Features -> Advanced button by Java/Javascript 
check boxes. I'll bet you have "Hide the status bar" unchecked.

This caught me for a moment, too, then I remembered I always disable 
everything in the Advanced JavaScript Options box, and that's one of 
them. So users actually have a defence right now, but they have to 
specifically set it themselves.