Comments on: Perl.com Sends Visitors to Porn Site!

By: eM3rC

eM3rC — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:03:22 +0000

I would say IE is the most vulnerable to almost every attack. With firefox you can download an addon called noscript which blocks attacks like this and if you are equipped with a good firewall it should catch the download and/or attempt to install this program. Although I dont know about this exploit personally it seems like IE would be the one affected.

By: J. Lion

J. Lion — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:16:47 +0000

The example was Internet Explorer (IE) – but was it truly limited to IE or was Firefox vulnerable as well?

By: eM3rC

eM3rC — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:46:14 +0000

Black hats strike again. Seems like a pretty funny prank to pull considering the volume of people that visit perl.com.

I think mozilla should be the new default browser!

By: Nobody_Holme

Nobody_Holme — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:23:41 +0000

*points at the tutorial on that somewhere on here* at least, i’m pretty sure it was on here… bad guys can read this too…
I just ignore anything that tries to force me onto exploder… its in my permanent firewall block list just to make sure. So far (and i’ve been doing so for a couple of years now) i think the only site i’ve cared about was some corporate recruitment company who i’ve since found are incompetent in every way anyway, so no loss there.

By: goodpeople

goodpeople — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:37:22 +0000

oh dear.. how sad.. never mind.

This is just plain stupid. But hey, shit happens. I wonder though how the bad guys got hold of the domain name..

By: Reticent

Reticent — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:25:18 +0000

“a life sentence of lynx” – That’s pretty cold, I wouldnt wish that upon anyone

By: Pantagruel

Pantagruel — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:12:25 +0000

Guess someone found a ‘creative’ way to plug a whole for the needy Perl geeks . And indeed their way of finding a sexy url/domain name surely will have fooled some of the geeks until they where confronted with the scantly clad men/women.
Restricting websites to IE surfers only should be made punishable (a life sentence of lynx usage would be appropriate), it’s shortsighted, extremely annoying and does no justice to your programming/coding skill. Further more I cannot understand why an O’Reilly website would rely on 3rd party sourced Javascripts, you are effectively creating a point of entry/abuse/etc.

By: Sir Henry

Sir Henry — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:41:41 +0000

Indeed, the first thing I noticed was the mention of IE. I just do not understand why people still use IE. Then again, my soon-to-be previous employer builds applications that only run in IE, thus securing their insecurity. Digression noted, I do find their lexicon of geek to be impressive for the sake of domain naming.