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Subject: Re: I've got spyware!!??
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On Thursday 23 February 2006 07:43, Dave McCammon wrote:
> --- Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> wrote:
> > On Feb 23, 2006, at 12:19 AM, Joseph Vella wrote:
> >
> > > 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

> I think it is something in Firefox. I see the same
> thing. When the middle mouse button is clicked on a
> page, it goes to a seemingly random page.(Notice
> seemingly)
>
> It looks like it can be disable by typeing
> "about:config" in the address bar of firefox and
> changing the middlemouse.contentloadurl to false.
>
> Also, google "middlemouse.contentloadurl" for what it
> does. It has something to do with loading clipboard
> contents as URL.
> Read
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216899.
> There is a mention of a "Google "I'm Feeling Lucky""
> search being done, which may be what you are seeing.
>
> Dave
>

That was it.  When select and copy text then click on the mousewheel inside 
Firefox, a random page pops up.  When I delete the contents of the clipboard, 
click on the mouse then wheel nothing happens.   It was strange when I didn't 
know what was going on.