Fright Explained
What it does
Since everyone is so concerned about what this does I will explain it as simply as I can.
Fight works by hooking into the event that gets fired when the Firefox window gets opened. It promptly closes the window and starts it's own script. This is really just a JavaScript (the programming language used) loop, which means it goes round and round doing the same thing over and over again. This generates the alerts. It is much like pressing this button.
You will then see a progress bar as it tells you it is deleting your profile and stuff, this just runs along based on times I have hard coded into the extension to make it appear real. Nothing really happens.
This is done twice along with a few more alerts.
It then finishes with the computer restarting. This is quite simple, it simply runs a BAT file included with the add-on. The code is
%windir%\system32\shutdown.exe -r -t 00I even put that in a short cut on my desktop to restart my computer. It is harmless, unless you have unsaved data.
I did also add a funny little thing that comes up after the windows restarts, just because I am mean.
Could it be done for real
Yes it could, it would be possible to delete most of the files on a computer from with in an extension. Doing damage to other vital system components like the registry is also possible, or event far more malicious things. But I would never release the code for it, I have keep a tight lid on an exploit I wrote that worked in both Firefox and IE.
