Report attack sites feature of Firefox

[bonedriven]

I did a test to see if FF can effectively block attack sites. The 5 sites I tested are all legal sites but only get poisoned with trojans. FF warned me on every attack site I tested. I tried it in IE8,but there's no warning at all (no surprise) until Avira personal popped out saying trojan found in IE's temp folder.

But I doubt if FF updates its blacklist as soon as attack sites get clean again. Or they only wait till someone report an FP about it.

BTW,I installed Online Armor from Giveawayoftheday today. Why doesn't OA's webshield do anything about trojan downloading to my computer,since it is designed to filter dangerous content? It can't even beat FF's smart feature?

[innerpeace]

Maybe this will help explain what the OA's Web Shield does. http://www.tallemu.com/web_filter.html

[JRViejo]

Originally Posted by bonedriven

But I doubt if FF updates its blacklist as soon as attack sites get clean again. Or they only wait till someone report an FP about it.

bonedriven, your comment intrigued me and I went searching. According to this thread Getting 'Reported Attack Site' when accessing a web page - how does Firefox detect this?, Firefox gets its list of attack sites from Google. No wonder FF is fast in that regard!

[bonedriven]

Originally Posted by JRViejo

Firefox gets its list of attack sites from Google. No wonder FF is fast in that regard!

I searched before post this thread and only got to know that the list was from google,but thought it was built on FF's user reports. Since the blacklist is the result of Virus/malware scan from google,it must be much more accurate than I previously thought.

BTW,I noticed noscript had blocked some malicious stuff too!

[mantra]

Originally Posted by bonedriven

I did a test to see if FF can effectively block attack sites. The 5 sites I tested are all legal sites but only get poisoned with trojans. FF warned me on every attack site I tested. I tried it in IE8,but there's no warning at all (no surprise) until Avira personal popped out saying trojan found in IE's temp folder.

But I doubt if FF updates its blacklist as soon as attack sites get clean again. Or they only wait till someone report an FP about it.

BTW,I installed Online Armor from Giveawayoftheday today. Why doesn't OA's webshield do anything about trojan downloading to my computer,since it is designed to filter dangerous content? It can't even beat FF's smart feature?

which version of ff did you test?

[bonedriven]

Originally Posted by mantra

which version of ff did you test?

The latest stable version 3.0.10