Back to the articleSandbox #
Posted Friday 4th January 2008 18:13 GMT
allegedly a safe place to play ... ahah ... the Java crap is to be blamed, not McAfee. Sandbox without a proper tarp end up filled with cat pooh. Can't blame McAfee trying to pick one pooh too many.
McAfee spies malware in legit JavaScript apps
Please! #
Posted Friday 4th January 2008 19:52 GMT
Do not confuse Java with Javascript. The only evident relationship between the two is the four letters in "java."
I'm not entirely certain that anything calling Friendster "malware" is incorrect, however. It seems to me to be a bit less dangerous than a bio-engineered version of anthrax, and a bit more malicious than a kiss from your auntie; somewhere in between, but leaning towards anthrax.
Sandbox... #
Posted Sunday 6th January 2008 10:23 GMT
Is not always effective. Do you know just how much software they'd need to test? Many different versions of Java, Flash, etc. -- and that's just counting the "popular" software.
SCREAMING SCRIPT #
Posted Sunday 6th January 2008 18:14 GMT
javaSCRIPT is unrelated to java and never gets into the (cat-turded) sandbox.
No such thing as heuristic detection #
Posted Sunday 6th January 2008 18:14 GMT
and they copy each others signatures.
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