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Friday, July 09, 2004
 
Security Update for Firefox
The DSL Reports Secruity forum reports this morning that "A recent bug has been found in Firefox 0.x versions that could be potentially exploited; it allows pages to run executables on windows via a link."

Fortunately the fix is easy. Here are the steps to fix the problem:

  • Type about:config in the address bar.

  • Find "network.protocol-handler.external.shell"

  • If the value "network.protocol-handler.external.shell" isn't listed (List is alphabetically ordered by default), you can manually add it by right clicking (in the about:config window), New -> Boolean. Put in the name as stated, and set the value to false.

  • Change the value by double clicking, and changing the value to false.

  • Save what you were doing (if anything) in Firefox, and restart it.
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    That should take care of the problem.

    - posted by Perry @ 8:51 AM
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