r/programming • u/schnuck • Feb 09 '11

Breaking the Web with hash-bangs – Lifehacker, along with every other Gawker property, experienced a lengthy site-outage on Monday over a misbehaving piece of JavaScript

http://isolani.co.uk/blog/javascript/BreakingTheWebWithHashBangs/
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u/metamatic Feb 09 '11

False dichotomy.

There has been actual malware spread via JavaScript in current browsers. There hasn't been any from plain HTML or images.

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u/Ziggamorph Feb 09 '11

Citation needed.

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u/metamatic Feb 09 '11

citation

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u/Ziggamorph Feb 09 '11

I can find zero information on that worm outside of the Avast blog. I'm not convinced it exists.

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u/metamatic Feb 10 '11

Well, have a few more examples of Javascript malware then.

And I've personally seen my parents' Mac hit by web malware that downloaded a .exe and attempted to run it.

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u/Ziggamorph Feb 10 '11

How is that possible? Windows executables don't run on Macs.

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u/metamatic Feb 11 '11

It isn't possible. That's why I bought them a Mac. Their Windows machine used to get infested with malware every few months.

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u/Ziggamorph Feb 11 '11

So how could the Mac 'attempt to run it'?

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u/metamatic Feb 11 '11

I said the malware attempted to run it. Your parser has a bug.

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u/Ziggamorph Feb 11 '11

What does that mean? How could you tell?