I'm Going Nuts with Pop Ads 10.2.3

[FromTheRafters]

Quoth the raven named FromTheRafters:


Ok. Why not use Mozilla, or Firefox/Thunderbird, and eliminate the
threat altogether?

No reason why not, I'm just saying that a shell, or a proxy, can be
a nice way to add (or remove) functionality. A program's insecurity
can be mitigated by a shell. Worrying about the insecurities that are
still present "under there" is a little like worrying about malicious code
that still resides within "cleaned" infected program files. If the "cleaner"
breaks the malware code so that it doesn't ever execute, then what is
the danger of fragments still being present?

....of course from a purist standpoint it would be better to replace
such a program with a better, one (in both cases).

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

Quoth the raven named FromTheRafters:

No reason why not, I'm just saying that a shell, or a proxy, can be
a nice way to add (or remove) functionality. A program's
insecurity can be mitigated by a shell.

This is generally true, tho we need to assume that the shell did not
break something else. Hard to tell with a 25MB program.

Worrying about the insecurities that are still present "under
there" is a little like worrying about malicious code that still
resides within "cleaned" infected program files. If the "cleaner"
breaks the malware code so that it doesn't ever execute, then what
is the danger of fragments still being present?

Only that real functionality remains intact.

...of course from a purist standpoint it would be better to replace
such a program with a better, one (in both cases).

I guess I fall in the purist crowd. ;-)

 

[johnhelp]

if you are getting pop ads in google, than most likely your computer has infected with virus, so you would need to a virus scan and remove adware installed in your computer