Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:35:32 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: I've got spyware!!?? Message-ID: <96504960-2987-425A-84B7-DD7E2F385113@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <200602230019.25693.satyam@sklinks.com> References: <200602230019.25693.satyam@sklinks.com>
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On Feb 23, 2006, at 12:19 AM, Joseph Vella wrote: > I just installed flash in Firefox. I was playing around with the > autoscrolling feature, when all of a sudden some ugly website pops > up. It > was something I clicked with the mouse wheel. I tried it again and > sure > enough the same site pops up. It was kind of tricky to do. I had > to be > scrolling and then click real fast. I found that if I turned off the > autoscrolling, anytime I clicked in the browser window with the > mouse wheel > this site would come up. On a couple of occasions a page within the > Microsoft site would come up instead. > > I deleted the mozilla directory in my home directory. After that > the first > three clicks of my mouse wheel would cause the Microsoft page to > come up, > after that the other site would come up. > > How could there be spyware on my FreeBSD computer and how do I get > rid of it? Not sure if this is true for FreeBSD, but try deleting the ~/.macromedia directory and see what happens. This may remove any unwanted cached flash apps. Interesting though. If this persists, someone may have found and exploited a security issue with Flash =\... -Garrett
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