visit website scanning for spyware starts

visisited several websites using firefox, i think drudgereport may be
culprit. leave pc for two minutes, come back and some program is scanning
for spyware, i assume can read all files on my computer. didn't give admin
password or click on anything but close window. this is bad.

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:39:41 GMT
w_faire@yahoo.ca (warren) wrote:

> visisited several websites using firefox, i think drudgereport may be
> culprit. leave pc for two minutes, come back and some program is
> scanning for spyware, i assume can read all files on my computer.
> didn't give admin password or click on anything but close window.
> this is bad.
>
Hi
Some program? A name would help... It's not beagle is it? There is a
default beagle indexer plugin for firefox, is this enabled?

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program was running, or appeared to be running, in a firefox window.
looked like trend. i have never used beagle and don't even know if it is
installed.

click add ons in firefox get xml parsing error.

thx.

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:22:54 GMT
w_faire@yahoo.ca (warren) wrote:

> program was running, or appeared to be running, in a firefox window.
> looked like trend. i have never used beagle and don't even know if it
> is installed.
>
> click add ons in firefox get xml parsing error.
>
> thx.
>
Hi
Sounds like it just looked like a spyware scan was running, I've see
them on here saying the are looking at 'windows' file system... but
alas I don't have one....

What OS version and firefox version?

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warren wrote:

> program was running, or appeared to be running, in a firefox window.
> looked like trend.

Since there is no need for antispyware in Linux, I doubt you have any
running. You are probably landing on a website that has those
stupid "helpful" security checks which if you were running Windows would
make you fill like the sky was falling if you didn't download and install
that software. More often then not, that software is worse than the
spyware it pretends to fix, and for a few of them darn near impossible to
remove without reformatting the hard drive.

For the most part unless your computer acts as a mail server which will pass
Email on to other Windows servers, you wouldn't need any anti-virus either.

Now using Spam Assassination is another thing. Nothing in the world is
exempt from getting inundated with SPAM. It is the curse of the Internet
generation.

> i have never used beagle and don't even know if it is
> installed.
>

Beagle & Kerry are installed by default in OpenSuse 10.3. One of the first
things I do when upgrading is uninstall Beage and Kerry and mark them taboo
(which sometimes YAST obeys and sometimes it doesn't).

> click add ons in firefox get xml parsing error.
>
> thx.

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