104 votes
protect us from bad scripts
"Cookie Stealing Scripts " and other fraudulent scripts... figure out a method to better protect us from these problems
"Cookie Stealing Scripts " and other fraudulent scripts... figure out a method to better protect us from these problems
jerone
In answer to cookieMonster and iamah a start: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/11388
3 months ago
iamah
What is relatively easy is to do a script that searches the code looking for "potentially dangerous" calls, like http requests, reading cookies, keyboard listening methods, maybe...? for a programmer it should be interesting to take a look what those are doing before installing...
3 months ago
Edo78
LOL
an antivirus need human researchers to detect new virus and their "sign" ...
If you can find a better solution you're welcome ;-)
5 months ago
cookieMonster
come on. we use scripts to avoid manual work.
there should be a script to prescan any script for malicious code before installing them. a red flag or something also needs to be posted along with the script name in the classification system.
5 months ago
Edo78
the only better method is to manually check every script before publish it ...
5 months ago