Ayone notice security issues in Firefox?

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Ion Silverbolt

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I was surfing earlier and got a weird request to save a file called default.exe. I thought that was weird since Firefox usually never bothers with file requests unless you click on something. It came up as a javascript request. Anyway, I looked at the site it came from out of curiosity and here's what it is.

http://mmm.media-motor.net/soft (Left unclickable for security)

The default.exe file is in there. Which I am guessing is probably either nasty spyware, or even a virus. What's scary is it's named default so I assume it automatically installs under IE. And what the hell is mmm? I didn't know that was a valid url name.

Anyway, has anyone else noticed anything in Firefox that could be considered a security threat? I don't consider the above as a threat or anything, but I have been seeing more attempts such as the above. Most sites work right with javascript disabled at least. I love firefox, but I bet we will start to see it get targeted more as it gets more popular. It's still worlds better than IE or anything else though.
 
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the site looks like bad news to me. i would avoid it.

it is pretty wierd how it automatically asks you to download the default.exe
 
Holy crap! I wish I could remember which site I was at that made it pop-up. I sure as hell wasn't at any warez or pr0n sites. It didn't pop-up right away either. Seems like sometimes they come up only after so much time passes.

I'm not sure you can consider it a security risk yet. I mean you still have to say yes to install it. But still, they're getting more tricky by the day.
 
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