From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 23 08:34:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01D6816A420 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:34:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout3.cac.washington.edu (mxout3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E7C643D5D for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:34:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.9]) by mxout3.cac.washington.edu (8.13.5+UW05.10/8.13.5+UW05.09) with ESMTP id k1N8Y0v8027858 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:34:00 -0800 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.0.40] (dsl254-013-145.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.254.13.145]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.5+UW05.10/8.13.5+UW05.09) with ESMTP id k1N8Y0an004918 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:34:00 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) In-Reply-To: <200602230019.25693.satyam@sklinks.com> References: <200602230019.25693.satyam@sklinks.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <96504960-2987-425A-84B7-DD7E2F385113@u.washington.edu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Garrett Cooper Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:35:32 -0800 To: FreeBSD Questions X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __STOCK_SUBJ_9 0' Subject: Re: I've got spyware!!?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:34:02 -0000 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