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That was just a random example, someone could play the same game from a web page in the main pane of the browser w/o resorting to popups. The Mozilla popup filter is mostly about controlling annoyances rather than enhancing security. My point is that Internet security is reaching crisis proportions, and relatively few people have the knowledge and inclination to protect their workstations adequately. If you're a paid administrator you may be conscientious about testing and applying security patches ASAP, but people tend to be more lax with their personal machines. And once one PC is compromised, it becomes that much easier to compromise others since the attacker learns a bunch of email addresses, etc.

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