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by vwuon 2422 days ago
Seems like these scripts are triggered by malvertising -- if your ad blocker is properly configured this should never happen.
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People with enough internet smarts to have an ad blocker aren't the target demographic for the ol' "your computer are hackered u are ded without u give us muney" JS dialog.
I was under the impression that Firefox already shipped with an ad blocker by default?
The default ad-blocking functionality won't block an attack like this. You'd need a more robust blocker like NoScript.
(which is great if you're looking for one, BTW!)