You know, I was wondering when someone would pop in and finally say something about the issues Web Browsers put you in the way of when it comes to Security.

I was gonna do it myself, but I simply didn't have the time until Today really; Between My Wife being accepted into Her Program at the College, and me ****ing up my knee AGAIN, and being in MORE excruciating pain than usual (I think I've gone over my back problems with most people here before so I don't think I need to type out a book about my life and how I'm NOW a Chronic Pain Patient, and need **** that would knock most people right out just to get out of bed every day....) So yea, I went to the Doctor today, and got my 120 4MG Dilaudid Tablets, and 1 MG Xanax Tablets Early because I'll be to busy to do it next week when I was gonna go.

So, now that I can finally sit down here and not be screaming blood curdling screams of pain and contemplating suicide, I can take a few minutes and talk about this... Thank God for Opiates and Opioids is all I can say.

Web Browsers back in the day were something we all used to look at web sites, and that was it. Every once in a while, you'd have an update available, and you'd download and install a new version, or, a patch for your version already installed, and that was the end of it.

Today, we have Flash, Java up the ass, and PDFs doing drive by **** that makes some gangs look lazy.

I mean seriously, who here in this thread, reading this, can Honestly say they don't EVER use Flash? Or Java? Or Read PDFs?

Any of you? Probably not....

And yet that is one of the biggest holes we now have. I admit that I'm currently a little rusty after the last few years; I used to sit here all day looking up things, reading about Security, trying to find new way to exploit the **** out of Computers, and now? I haven't rooted a box in a long time. I haven't done much of anything in a long time other than keep up in the Unix World.

I'm not a 20 year old without much responsibility anymore, and like everyone else here who has responsibilities and a Family, I'm figuring out how to Balance it all. When I do, great, but I haven't found it yet.

I'm now a Married Man, with a Wife, a House, a Car, and Bills. I also live in Michigan, so finding work is making finding Waldo seem like a simply task lol.

But anyway, my point is; I might be rusty, but I'm not totally crusty either; And I know damn well that my Web Browser, has more potential for security risks, that almost anything else does here.

Remember the good ol' Days? When you had to actually CLICK on **** to get infected? When someone Emailed you a Virus, and you had to not only open the ****ing thing, you had to be stupid enough to download it, and then double click on it, and THEN you were infected? Remember that?

Now, you go to a Website with embedded video, and BANG.

I'm not surprised or anything.... I wish I had proof of over 10 years ago when I thought about this... I'm not kidding either; Over 10 years ago, I was talking with a friend of mine, and we were discussing how Computers were currently exploited, and I was building a Web Site, and writing out some Code, and I said to him "Dude, I wonder if I can manage to make a Web Site, where all you have to do is VISIT this web site, and it automatically infects a machine".... "Think it's possible?".

He said "Dude seriously? A WEB SITE where you don't click on ANYTHING and just visiting it is enough to infect a machine? Are you high?".

I got laughed at, but I kept on going for a while, and at the end of.... Maybe three hours, I had a Web Site that could read Data from a person's Hard Drive, and add data to their Start Up.

Visiting that web site would add something to the Windows Startup saying "Gore owned you" or something along those lines.

But I couldn't actually infect it. I wasn't trying to destroy anything; I could just have easily made it add something to startup that deleted everything, but I didn't.

But I couldn't quite figure out a way to actually infect, or own a system, merely by clicking on a link. But now? It's exactly what's happening. I really should have figured out a way to get a patent on my idea, lol, every Malware ***** on Earth would owe me money lol.