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Skriven 2010-03-24 06:17:00 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MAURICE KINAL
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 MK> Hey Wayne!

 > I did kill that process but offline I reinvoked it and it
 > opened the same six tabs it left me

 MK> Okay.  Now that it is closed go into your ~/.mozilla (I think that is

That is correct.
I didn't actually do that but it wouldn't have mattered to me because I'd
always wonder if there's some
residual fragment of that malware left over.

I mean for heaven's sake it clobbered F-prot's fpscan and I've never had
trouble with that before.
I downloaded a clean copy and it corrupted that one too.

Nasty one that one was.

SOK anyhow, it helps keep my memory sharpened up to go through this once and a
while.

I'm in no rush and I'll have all the software I want on here in the next couple
of days and all my 
bookmarks and such back.

Our illustrious leader and moderator of Cyber Danger did tip me to Firefox's
trusted sites
option and I must admit to not having stumbled across that.


 MK> right) and find the cache that contains those tabs and delete them.
 MK> After you do that then fire up firefox, preferably while offline, and
 MK> go into it's configuration dealie and make sure the cache configuration
 MK> stuff is to your liking.  I believe by default they give it 50M which
 MK> is questionable whether or not you actually need that much.  Check the
 MK> other stuff while you're at it.

Packed to the gills this drive is only 32 percent used in partition number one.

 > I am of the opinion Firefox is a vulnerabilty I've been aware of.

 MK> It's not the only one.  If push came to shove I'd go with seamonkey
 MK> myself.  I did up the new one on the neighbour's eeepc and it looks to
 MK> be behaving itself.
 MK>  Personally I have no use for any of this stuff thank goodness.

 > I'm not as sharp as you to do everything at the command line.

 MK> I'm not that sharp.  However I am not adverse to learning as most seem
 MK> to be.

 > However my cable provider and bank require javascript

 MK> Then those should be the ones you should isolate in a special account
 MK> that doesn't surf the web.  No?

Yeah that's right you are there and it's my intent to do so but yet another
darned secure password to deal with, yuck.

 > as well as some of the entertainment sites I visit.

 MK> Good luck with that.  Too many idiots at the helm of far too many of
 MK> those.

 > Did that, actually dhcpcd -k -d eth0.

 MK> Were you able to quit firefox after?

 > Nope, this was malware, no doubt about it.

 MK> You're more than likely right but I question it corrupting the system.
 MK> Your home account on the other hand is probably a mess, especially
 MK> firefox.  Also never give yourself system access as that can open a can
 MK> of worms if you're not careful.  Having more than one account for
 MK> yourself is the way to go.

 > This I do not know.
 > It was a somewhat irritating experience.

 MK> I don't doubt that.  However if you fix the real issue then you'll
 MK> minimalize future irritation.  I would argue that chasing ghosts is the
 MK> biggest irritation.

That's the way I choose to look at this experience, a learning experience and I
should have taken some of
these steps long ago.

F-prot is going to be kept running in memory if it doesn't burden this antique
too much.
Live and learn.

But truly what a PITA all this is just because the world is full of thieves and
idiots
creating this malware and the ones smart enough to create the horror this one
is is certainly smart enough 
to get a legitimate job making money from those skills, heck right now the U.S.
government is actively seeking
such types for employment against their fellow malware hackers and even foreign
governments.

Yeah, a secure and separate account will be created for the banking, ect and I
auto run 
on shutdown a microscopic perl script to clear cache on boot or at any time of
my chosing.

This is rather too much trouble to go through over and over again and the
malware environment
really is getting worse for Linux as there was a time I recall these systems
really weren't targeted
hardly at all.

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