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I wrote beforethat Samsung privides free internet kiosks at Sydney International Airport. Unfortunately in a sign of the times, all the free kiosks are spyware infected tonight. So infected that none of them are operational.

Firstly it’s foolish to run an unattended public internet accessable kiosk on Windows XP. I don’t know how often these PC’s are rebuilt I’d hope overnight. I’ll check them on the way back in Sydney.

Secondly it again reminds me to be paranoid about the sites I access from a public computer. No password enabled sites, no banking, ebay, paypal or any site that can be attractive to a bad guy. Even accessing webmail from one of these devices is risky if it’s your primary email address.

Tags: internet, nasty, Travel

Today I also came across a nasty endless loop Javascript. This sucker can trap IE, Firefox and Opera in an endless loop requiring you to kill the application via task manager or kill the process if using one of the *nix.

Go get the NoScript – Firefox Extension immediately.

From the description

NoScript allows JavaScript execution only for trusted domains of your choice (e.g. your home-banking web site). This whitelist based pre-emptive script blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even unknown!) with no loss of functionality… Experts will agree: Firefox is really safer with NoScript

Tags: javascript, malicious, nasty, Technology