I just got a "Vote Dukakis" pop-up, NO LIE

[steve2470]

what was that ??????

[Pithlet]

1. I did, too.

The first one just said "Hi" After that, they say "Vote Dukakis"

Lame.

[Dickie Flatt]

2. Ignore it.

That wasnt for you since you've been a loyal Democrat since 1976.

[Cush]

3. got it as well

posted about it in the "Lounge"

[Indiana_Dem]

4. So did I!

Must be a Halloween prank.

[Indiana_Dem]

5. And who posted that picture of the cat in the subject line??

I didn't know you could do that?

[Cobalt Violet]

6. Lots of us did.

Don't know what it is.

[Kierkegaard]

7. Relaaaax

Just a javascript 'alert'

The mods must have killed it. It was the 'TV' post by Dickie Flatt...

[cheezus]

8. don't relax - this is a SEVERE security flaw

dickie did a valuable proof of concept. that could have been malicious script as opposed to a harmless popup. Also, the cat picture test thread I posted shows that you could put ANYTHING there.

this is scary stuff. i hope DU is on top of this now

[madmax]

9. I got it too and spent a few minutes

running Ad-Aware and Spybot Search and Destroy... will that get it? duh :silly:

[Kierkegaard]

10. It's not scary unless you are afraid of using javascript.

Tell me how many websites you visit that don't use javascripting of some sort. The title line is so limited in length that it would be extremely difficult to write anything that was remotely malicious. If your browser is already susceptible to minor exploits, you are already in big trouble. Like I said, there is nothing to panic about.

Besides that, the admin has already begun filtering the title field...

[high density]

11. If you're worried about stupid things like this, turn off javascript

It's not scary stuff in my opinion. Then again, I'm not using Internet Explorer. :)