Firefox and Errorsafe adware or smth..

MAC!EK · 2006-04-14 22:02:12

My cousin was using my computer for few hours. For surfing the net and playing flash games using firefox. I think she "cought" something from the net...
Now everytime when I run firefox I have this site showsing:

And this messages:

and...

I want to turn it off someway but how?

mpie · 2006-04-14 22:13:22

go to edit, prefrences,privacy and clean up there that should do it..
it's a nasty pop-under advert aimed as m$ users, for a laugh I followed the link before and it reported 47 registry errors lol- on my arch install
the free download it offers confirms these errors and will not fix them, just offers you a link to the full version whiich surprise suprise you have to pay for

Gullible Jones · 2006-04-15 00:43:33

Ugh, that's not right... There ought to be some option to prevent javascripts from changing your start page, and it ought to be on by default. :shock:

MAC!EK · 2006-04-15 07:43:29

mpie wrote:

go to edit, prefrences,privacy and clean up there that should do it..

I cleaned all expcept passwords but it didn't help

mpie · 2006-04-15 10:26:34

http://defeat-error-safe.org/?gclid=CIf … EAodlk7fCw

it's well known, ? was she running as root at the time? the file may be in tmp.
if you cant find it you can always pacman -Rc firefox so no config is saved then reinstall it

Gullible Jones · 2006-04-15 15:55:32

mpie wrote:

http://defeat-error-safe.org/?gclid=CIf … EAodlk7fCw
it's well known, ? was she running as root at the time? the file may be in tmp.
if you cant find it you can always pacman -Rc firefox so no config is saved then reinstall it

Don't you mean -Rn? -c is "cascade"...

(Christ, browser hijackings on Linux. I've half a mind to give Mozilla.org a bug report saying that they really, really need to beef up security stuff...)

MAC!EK · 2006-04-15 19:02:07

I updated firefox to 1.5.0.2 but it didn't helped. Restarted and removed all cached stuff many times.
After some time the errorsafe disappeared. :?

Lone_Wolf · 2006-04-15 19:11:53

try installing the noscript and adblock extensions.

It will help prevent this kind of thing in the future

Gullible Jones · 2006-04-15 20:57:10

Even so, something screwy is going on here - adware for Windows simply shouldn't work on Linux.

Again, were you running as root? Do you have Wine installed, and was it running at the time?

Seriously, someone should file a bug report on Mozilla.org about this. Stuff like this simply should not happen.

Edit: Now this is weird, according to that site on it ErrorSafe uses DLLs and the registry - it appears to be designed specifically for Windows, and should not work on Linux. Again... Did you have Wine running at the time, or something? That's the only way I can see that something like this could happen.

MAC!EK · 2006-04-15 21:10:02

Gullible Jones wrote:

Again, were you running as root? Do you have Wine installed, and was it running at the time?

I wasn't running as root.
I have wine installed.
It wasn't running at that time.

Gullible Jones · 2006-04-15 23:34:54

Gah, this is screwed up... DLL-based adware should *not*, under any condition, be able to run on an OS that does not use DLLs. I think we might be seeing a breach in the laws of physics here folks... :shock:

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#1 2006-04-14 22:02:12

Firefox and Errorsafe adware or smth..

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