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Thanks again, Tom.

Could you name some? I wish I could, but it's been over a year. I've forgotten which sites gave me trouble. Sorry! None of which stops history attacks. The firewall has to allow the browser. Attacks directed at the browser's history would not be stopped. Having the browser not save history helps, a...

I used to not accept third-party cookies, but a few sites refuse to work without them (grrrrrr...). The Permit Cookies extension was a suggestion from Steve Gibson (I've been listening to his Security Now podcast since almost the beginning). As for history and access to my computer, I'm not terribly...

Hi Giorgio,

I sent you a PM. I hope that was okay.

We have a winner! :D The problem was not with a "fudged" extension (phew). I fudge them because I want to be able to keep using them after their authors have abandoned them and nobody's come up with a replacement. :| Also, in the interest of covering all possibilities, all of this is on th...

This is a nasty web trend, in which you allow the scripts that show up when you first visit the page, but they then call scripts from other sources. Yep, I noticed that happening on some pages. On the Google Sightseeing (and the Google search) pages, the NoScript icon is white and there are no scri...

I traced the problem to a URL I had in my post. I have no idea what was wrong with it, it was part of an error message. It did not contain special characters more exotic than ampersands and a question mark. That image is really unhelpful and it's juvenile. I was trying to imagine having to backup al...

I'm sorry, but the "You Got Stallown3D!1" is not only scary, but it's completely unhelpful. I spent the day scanning my PC for malware. :oops: Thankfully I had saved what I wanted to post: Thank you for answering, Tom! I don't have the Request Policy addon and I use Facebook without any pr...

I'm trying to reply to a post by Tom in the thread "Problems with Google search, Google Sightseeing" but every time I click on either Preview or Post, I'm taken to http://evil.hackademix.net/images/stallowned.jpg#preview (picture of Sylvester Stallone with caption "You Got Stallown3D!...