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Trojan downloader in my Mozilla?

I seem to have had a nasty in my computer. AVG found it, said it couldn't correct it but not in a real dramatic way, just did its normal scan and went about its business. I had first noticed something screwy after Thunderbird had downloaded and installed an update, I got dialog boxes wanting email address and password when I tried to send mail or post to usenet. I had already seen the trash in sejw and figured maybe someone had a new trick that I hadn't seen yet.

For whatever reason, I felt suspicious of a mature program asking for basic information after an update and stopped using it while I looked into it. Didn't really find anything, googled pretty well but not a lot of luck, but when I realized the AVG wasn't getting rid of what it said was bad and manually deleted it I'm no longer seeing a dialog box when I try to post with this machine.

The downloader was in my Mozilla app, down in firefox\profiles and simply deleting it seems to have solved the issue.

We'll see anyway..

John

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JohnM
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Did you get e-mail about a change in one of your accounts, and you had to downlaod an "applet.exe" before logging in?

I've gotten a hundred of these attempts.

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Maxwell Lol

I found the same thing after one of the firefox updates, and it's Google's involvement as they are tracking every site you visit, under the guise of security.

if the site I'm visiting is a suspected forgery".

This caused many minutes of my dial up time every time I launched firefox. Which bothered the heck out of me. They are watching every site you have been too, but no where do they say this.

ignator

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sk

I found the same thing after one of the firefox updates, and it's Google's involvement as they are tracking every site you visit, under the guise of security.

if the site I'm visiting is a suspected forgery".

This caused many minutes of my dial up time every time I launched firefox. Which bothered the heck out of me. They are watching every site you have been too, but no where do they say this.

ignator

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sk

In Options->Security you can select whether you want to check against a downloaded list of 'suspect' sites or to use Google (there's a possibility to select other sites, but only Google appears). I suggest using the list (the default setting) as it does not compromise privacy.

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Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

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Spehro Pefhany

Then turn it off.

Go to Preferences=>Security

[X] Tell me if the site I'm visiting is a suspected forgery (*) Check using a downloaded list of suspected sites ( ) Check by asking Google about each site I visit
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Maxwell Lol

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