Comments on: Someone should have used Firefox and Norton AntiVirus

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 14:23:02 +0000

@Neil: Firefox prevents driveby installations (via ActiveX).

Norton prevents trojans and dialers.

By: Neil M.

Neil M. — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:08:49 +0000

I really don’t see how FireFox would have helped in this case. Most of the times that this happens, someone downloads an adult oriented program of some sort (Which they mention in the program) and run it. Firefox still allows people to download and run programs as far as I know.

It’s not a virus which installs automatically. It’s a trojan which the user inadvertantly installs themselves.

By: Ian Thomas (thelem)

Ian Thomas (thelem) — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 21:35:47 +0000

My phone company (ntl, a UK cable company) limit the amount of outgoing calls you can make to a figure you choose (I think the default is about £200 of phone calls and pay per view TV events). If other companies would follow their lead it would help prevent things like this from getting out of hand.

By: Nanaki

Nanaki — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 12:39:21 +0000

Why would they mention Firefox. Their site is viewed completly wrong in it. :p

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 09:35:51 +0000

It really would help if all these articles about malware would actually mention firefox, you can be pretty sure that most of the people in these articles have not heard of Firefox

By: Kroc Camen

Kroc Camen — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 08:34:40 +0000

Norton?? Bwahaha don’t make me laugh. It’s as good as IE is for catching viruses. For one it doesn’t fix Blaster32, you have to download a patch tool from their website in the two minutes before your machine shuts down. This software is a joke, at best. >:[

By: David Naylor

David Naylor — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 08:06:29 +0000

Or, stuck with windows and used the free (and great) AVG antivirus…

By: Anon

Anon — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 04:25:48 +0000

Or better yet, used Ubuntu or Fedora GNU/Linux, which are both free.