I'm Dr. Joshua Schwimmer, a nephrologist and internal medicine physician in New York City. • Kidney Notes was the first active nephrology blog. (Trivia: Kidney Notes is so old that the National Library of Medicine still uses it as an example of how to formally cite blogs.) • Professionally, you can find me at Kidney.nyc. • Kidney Notes is for educational purposes only, not medical advice. Consult qualified health care professionals. See disclaimer.

Sunday, May 8, 2005

New Critical Firefox Security Exploit

This just in. Basically, if you click anywhere on a page with the exploit, it loads and runs a malicious file on your computer.

(The temporary solution to the problem is to disable "allow web sites to install software" under tools, options, web features.)

Considering that new security vulnerabilities are identified each week, and almost every public computer is filled with spyware/adware, I propose we simply stop using computers altogether.

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