Rotating In-game Warnings from SOE

[Coiyonite Adaks]

All SWG Players,

I have been getting rotating warnings in from SOE in game. It is about a copycat site called starwarsgalaxiesonline.net that is found to have "malicious virii/keyloggers". SOE Is asking everyone to spread the word and to not use that site.

DO NOT GO TO THAT SITE.

Obviously its a major problem if SOE feels the need to interrupt my spacial chat window on regular intervals.

There are currently 4 major exploits that are still unpatched for Internet Explorer. Please DO NOT even type in the URL, just to be safe. We are all curious, but just don't do it!

Coiyonite

[Guest]

Just saw that myself. Don't know that site and won't be "shaking hands" with it either.

[Keer]

And that Guest would be me.

- Keer Tregga

[X'an Shin]

What if I'm using that Fox that is ON FIRE BABY?

Still vulnerable?

[Coiyonite Adaks]

What if I'm using that Fox that is ON FIRE BABY?

Still vulnerable?

Probably not, but I am just going on the assumption most people are still using IE6..

Coiy

[TramelRaggs]

Yeah, I mostly use Mozilla as well. It was able to get me past the bottleneck on SWG - Day 1 and it's been on my machine ever since.

[Coiyonite Adaks]

I didn't mean this thread to become yet another thread where I rant about how everyone should use Mozilla... But what the hell..

Everybody in the universe should use Mozilla Firefox. Internet Explorer is old news. Even after patches it will still execute dangerous ActiveX controls which will always be difficult to audit.

Ok, thanks for listening.

Coiy

[Zaph]

See the key is not to exploite in the first place... so sites like that would never be a problem. To the people down loading the exploite programs off that site- HAHAHAHAHA! That's what you get!

[Coiyonite Adaks]

See the key is not to exploite in the first place... so sites like that would never be a problem. To the people down loading the exploite programs off that site- HAHAHAHAHA! That's what you get!

Well the problem is that there is currently some valid ActiveX controls that allow hackers to install it in the background just by opening the site. Its not even a matter of downloading anything consciously. Thats why systems keep getting hosed on IE6.

Coiy

[Zaph]

See the key is not to exploite in the first place... so sites like that would never be a problem. To the people down loading the exploite programs off that site- HAHAHAHAHA! That's what you get!

Well the problem is that there is currently some valid ActiveX controls that allow hackers to install it in the background just by opening the site. Its not even a matter of downloading anything consciously. Thats why systems keep getting hosed on IE6.

Coiy

Ah gotcha, I've never had the desire to check it so I guess it's good I know that now just in case. ActiveX is the video program for making ingame movies right?

[Ekade]

Someone correct me if I am wrong, but ActiveX is a technology that enables code to execute from the browser. You may sometimes be prompted to "download and ActiveX control from so an so, do you trust them?"

[Coiyonite Adaks]

Someone correct me if I am wrong, but ActiveX is a technology that enables code to execute from the browser. You may sometimes be prompted to "download and ActiveX control from so an so, do you trust them?"

Active X is a term that has been thrown around by the industry to mean all sorts of things. It really is just programming components that allow Windows to do perfom cusomized functions (e.g. flash animations are executed in macromedia's Active X plug in).

There are a lot of stock plugins that come with the browser. So the insecure plugins may not even be ones you have been prompted to install. Or may be ones that were installed with something else and you didn't know it. If any single one of them is flawed, you are screwed. Someone will exploit it and its game over.

Thats the real difference. Mozilla just browses the web. If you need the flash plug-in, it directs you to Macromedia's web site and you install the package yourself. Otherwise it only views web pages and reads HTML as it sees it. No extras unless you install them. Some people consider this an inconvenience, I guess that really depends on your point of view on it.

Coiy

[Zaph]

Someone correct me if I am wrong, but ActiveX is a technology that enables code to execute from the browser. You may sometimes be prompted to "download and ActiveX control from so an so, do you trust them?"

Active X is a term that has been thrown around by the industry to mean all sorts of things. It really is just programming components that allow Windows to do perfom cusomized functions (e.g. flash animations are executed in macromedia's Active X plug in).

There are a lot of stock plugins that come with the browser. So the insecure plugins may not even be ones you have been prompted to install. Or may be ones that were installed with something else and you didn't know it. If any single one of them is flawed, you are screwed. Someone will exploit it and its game over.

Thats the real difference. Mozilla just browses the web. If you need the flash plug-in, it directs you to Macromedia's web site and you install the package yourself. Otherwise it only views web pages and reads HTML as it sees it. No extras unless you install them. Some people consider this an inconvenience, I guess that really depends on your point of view on it.

Coiy

Ah... good to know.

[TramelRaggs]

Yes but what a lot of people don't know is there are not "drive-by" Active-X programs that will download Adware on your machine without you ever knowing about it.

You gotta be careful where you surf.

[Coiyonite Adaks]

Yes but what a lot of people don't know is there are not "drive-by" Active-X programs that will download Adware on your machine without you ever knowing about it.

You gotta be careful where you surf.

True and I admittedly don't understand how that works or why they allow for that.

Coiy