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Another Web Browser Exploit: Clickjacking

This one sounds pretty bad:

In a nutshell, it’s when you visit a malicious website and the attacker is able to take control of the links that your browser visits.  The problem affects all of the different browsers except something like lynx.  The issue has nothing to do with JavaScript so turning JavaScript off in your browser will not help you.  It’s a fundamental flaw with the way your browser works and cannot be fixed with a simple patch.  With this exploit, once you’re on the malicious web page, the bad guy can make you click on any link, any button, or anything on the page without you even seeing it happening.

The only defense might be Firefox + NoScript according to the guy who developed NoScript.

Here's more info on it from one of the two guys who were going to present it.

How did we survive before Google?

I've had an annoying problem with Office 2007 apparently not liking my dual monitor configuration. The problem I would experience was that it was that the outer window opened by the Office app didn't behave correctly -- the Minimize, Maximize, Close buttons wouldn't work, I couldn't move the application using the title bar. The problem didn't occur in Outlook, but did in Word and Excel so I was using my 2003 versions of those apps just because of this problem. Previous searches had found other issues but I wasn't finding an answer to my specific issue.

Today it just annoyed the heck out of me so I googled the problem again and this time I found the solution. Changing the settings on the nView software that manages my nVidia video card was the answer that I needed. Here are the specifics of the solution just in case you're looking for the same answer:

In nView Desktop Manager in the Windows tab try the following settings.

Prevent windows from opening off-screen uncheck
Enable window spanning across multiple displays check
Enable child window spanning across muliple displays - uncheck
Default display
No window snapping
No repositioning

This also fixed a problem I had with maximized windows on one of my screens (the screens are two different sizes).

The answer was in the thread found here. Isn't it just fabulous to be able to find solutions to annoying problems like this? Does a day pass that I don't use Google?