[Tfug] My Opera browser has malware

[erich]

Macrmedia is nuisance,

         I have Mozilla & Mozilla-Firefox installed on my machine. Since
"Flash" ads
hog so much network bandwidth I decided to get it for Firefox alone, but
it somehow
installed itself into Mozilla too. So you delete .macromedia eh? I'm
also tired of all
the brandname confusion "macromedia" "flash", "cold-fusion", etc. Adobe
bought the
company in 2005. They should just call it "Adobe".

                                                                                                     
Erich
Quag7 wrote:

>On Friday 05 January 2007 10:20 pm, Ranjan Grover wrote:
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>>>Hey guess what, that worked!
>>>      
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>>Well I'm glad it worked out. Also, Trustwatch and PhishTank both
>>report mediaplex.com as a trusted website, so chances are there wasn't
>>any malware/spyware... these things are quite unusual in LInux.
>>Chances are they'll hit Firefox/IceWeasel before Opera purely because
>>of Browser marketshare. AFAIK, Opera has < 1% of the browser market.
>>
>>Ranjan
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>I went through an interesting experience recently.  My Firefox, on Gentoo, 
>kept popping up this nag to install a product called DriveCleaner.  It 
>wouldn't go away.
>
>Something happened on my hosting provider's server, where all of my HTML files 
>(and some jpegs) had a bunch of HTML with iframe tags appended on to them 
>(the text had been catted >> to the html and to the jpegs). By simply going 
>to any page on my site, somehow, my browser got "infected" with an annoying 
>popup nag every second or third site I visited.
>
>Even if I closed down firefox, deleted any directories related to it, this 
>stupid nagging popup would still appear.
>
>Eventually I tracked it down to the .macromedia directory in my home 
>directory - I don't know much about Flash, but it installed a file in that 
>directory that was causing the problem.  I deleted .macromedia, and that 
>fixed the problem.
>
>It was a nuisance more than a full-bore security problem, but I figured I'd 
>mention this in case anyone else experiences the DriveCleaner issue.  As with 
>the other issue that was being discussed, most information about cleaning it 
>out is for Windows.  
>
>Certainly cleaning it was more trivial in Linux than it is in Windows.
>
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