I use firefox and yahoomail all the time, though on a mac. Sounds creepy!
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Zoe ,'War Stories'
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meara - Aug 12, 2009 1:41:59 pm PDT #10911 of 25501
Typo Boy - Aug 12, 2009 7:21:25 pm PDT #10912 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Jimmi, temporarily turn off javascript. Try and get to the Yahoo login page. (Don't know if you can login without it, but you can get to the login page fine. Try other (non flash-dependent) sites that cause you problems. If they load quickly with Javascript turned off then at least you know it is not any malware advanced enough to hide from malwarebytes. Note: obviously since most sites require javascript these days, this is not a solution, but it is a useful diagnosis.
Vortex - Aug 12, 2009 7:32:48 pm PDT #10913 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
One of my stupid rugby boys sent me a link that I clicked on. The link was safe but my laptop clicked on a side link by itself (damned touchpad) and my computer went apeshit. apparently there was a trojan horse in there somewhere. windows and avg both tried to get it and the computer crashed. I restarted and ran AVG again. It says it got everything, but when I rebooted tonight it came up again. AVG stopped it, but now I'm all paranoid about putting in an email password or anything else. any thoughts?
Typo Boy - Aug 12, 2009 9:15:31 pm PDT #10914 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Malwarebytes in safe mode.
(Note does give false positives, but ask here and we can help you spot them.)
DCJensen - Aug 13, 2009 4:58:28 am PDT #10915 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
I agree with Typo Boy
Vortex - Aug 13, 2009 5:59:29 am PDT #10916 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Malwarebytes in safe mode.
Just download the program, open in safe mode and run it? Is the free version okay?
Gudanov - Aug 13, 2009 6:03:14 am PDT #10917 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
The free version should be fine. It's what I've used. It picked up stuff that the anti-virus software (CA something or other) didn't.
Vortex - Aug 13, 2009 6:12:50 am PDT #10918 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Great, thanks! I pretty much trust AVG, but the fact that everytime I boot up, it says that it caught the trojan horse makes me nervous.
Vortex - Aug 13, 2009 7:30:33 pm PDT #10919 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Malware says I'm clean, but AVG keeps beeping at me! Ack!
amych - Aug 15, 2009 2:40:41 pm PDT #10920 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
New netbook (named Hardison. Say "hi" to the nice peoples, Hardison!) needs a linux twitter client -- anyone have any suggestions?