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EXAM TIP For the exam, know that rainbow tables are used to reverse

password hashes. In the real world, rainbow tables are only a real threat to

older/legacy systems. Well-designed modern authentication systems add

other values (a process called salting) to the password before hashing and

storing it. Rainbow tables are useless for reversing properly salted hashes.

Pop-Ups and Drive-By Downloads Pop-ups are those surprise browser

windows that appear automatically when you visit a Web site, proving

themselves irritating and unwanted. Getting rid of pop-ups is actually rather

tricky. You’ve probably noticed that most of these pop-up browser windows

don’t look like browser windows at all. They have no menu bar, button bar,

or address window, yet they are separate browser windows. HTML coding

permits Web site and advertising designers to remove the usual navigation

aids from a browser window so all you’re left with is the content. In fact, as

I’ll describe in a minute, some pop-up browser windows are deliberately

designed to mimic similar pop-up alerts from the Windows OS. They might

even have buttons similar to Windows’ own exit buttons, but you might find

that when you click them, you wind up with more pop-up windows instead!

What to do?

The first thing you need to know when dealing with pop-ups is how to

close them without actually having to risk clicking them. As I said, most popups

have removed all navigation aids, and many are also configured to appear

on your monitor screen in a position that places the browser window’s exit

button—the little × button in the upper-right corner—outside of your visible

screen area. Some even pop up behind the active browser window and wait

there in the background. Most annoying! To remedy this, use alternate means

to close the pop-up browser window. For instance, you can right-click the

browser window’s taskbar icon to generate a pop-up menu of your own.

Select Close, and the window should go away. You can also press ALT-TAB to

bring the browser window in question to the forefront and then press ALT-F4

to close it.

Most Web browsers have features to prevent pop-up ads in the first place,

but I’ve found that these features often miss the types of annoyances and

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