Makoto wroteFor example, how many people pull the urls out of the proprietary flash plugin and block them?
How many people are told not to click on hyperlinks in the flash media?
How many people shut down suspicious pages and popup with Ctrl+F4 or Ctrl+W rather than click the mouse?
There is a lot the user can do to keep his browsing clean.
Despite the fact that I've been active here now daily since at least two years back I don't trust that I get what your two talk about so how can I protect myself of the advices are on a to me non-comprehensible level of abstract geek talk?Some of those 'fake antivirus' popups/windows that installed malware on Windows were also designed to trap close attempts (the X button, Alt-F4, etc.) and install the malware anyway. The malware may not have as much of an impact for a Linux system, but it's still a good idea to know that they can, in fact, trap keystrokes like that, if they really want.
Under Puppy, if I get a suspicious window, it's easier just to choose to 'kill'
No offense but I sure want to do it right too but what was it I was supposed to do then.
I remember one time I used kill that destroyed that session and had to reboot to get it right again.
I get the impression that your two posts somewhat contradict each other? So how to I shut down that thing popping up?