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How is it possible that a virus can infect the system if the browser is started with non-admin rights
If I open my web browser (for example firefox) in Windows 7 with activated UAC as normal user (non admin) a virus - which uses a security leak in my browser - will only gets privileges of the normal ...
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Is a browser with disabled scripts and disabled java enough against malware
Is a browser like Firefox with disabled scripts (for example via a plugin like no-script) and disabled java enough to be protected against dryve-by-malware from the internet.
Of course this does not ...
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Are flash cookies still a threat and that persistent?
One year (or more) ago flash cookies were really a problem, because they could not be deleted from within a browser. They were not managed by the browser but by the flash player. Flash cookies were ...
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Is silverlight and Java running on the web browser capable of saving “state” into the user's local machines?
I am aware that even after we have cleared our cache and cookies, websites can still save files/information into our computer using Flash (Flash ever cookies),
I was wondering does other plugins like ...
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Is flash or javascript a bigger security concern?
Many flash website whitelisting extensions for chrome (such as flashblock and flashcontrol) use javascript in order to selectively block Adobe Flash from functioning. Thus, In order to get this ...
