[clue-tech] Firefox hijacked

[David L. Willson]

I am signing off from this discussion, because the problem is clearly restricted to Microsoft Windows.  It has nothing to do with Firefox or any other Free software.  If you have any further interest, like you want a copy of the broken machine to work on or whatever, contact me directly, not on this list.  Again, I'm sorry for the distraction.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Buttjer" <jontheisguy at gmail.com>
To: "CLUE tech" <clue-tech at cluedenver.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 10:34:12 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
Subject: Re: [clue-tech] Firefox hijacked

David,
AV2009 is definately a virus/spyware infection.

Another possibility that I haven't seen yet is to procure an external
hard drive enclosure, remove the user's hard drive and insert in said
enclosure, then bring the USB hard drive to another "clean" system to
work on removing the viruses!

Just .02.
jontheisguy


On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 7:00 PM, David L. Willson <DLWillson at thegeek.nu> wrote:
> Bruce:  I'm sorry for the off-topic post and I won't do it again.  That said, I'm not a (or the) Windows user.  The Windows user is my customer.  I felt that the problem sufficiently involved Free software to justify the post.  I wish there were a more broadly scoped technical list.  Ah well.  Anyway, sorry.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruce Ediger" <eballen1 at qwest.net>
> To: "CLUE tech" <clue-tech at cluedenver.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 1:39:53 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
> Subject: Re: [clue-tech] Firefox hijacked
>
> I'm not really scolding anyone,  I'm just remarking about how weird Windows
> discussions seem.  I've always (well, since 1988) had a Unix or NeXT or NetBSD
> or Linux box on the old kitchen table.  Until 2003, I managed to not even have
> a Windows box on my desk at work.  Until 2006, I never even developed under
> Windows, I just used it as a vehicle for PuTTY.
>
> On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, someone wrote:
>
>> Just my 2 cents - when I come across a windows system like this, several
>> things will also happen.  ...
>
> Are we not men?  Why are we discussing the VAST technical shortcomings of
> Windows on a linux *technical* list?
>
> It just goes to show you how magnificently lousy Windows is when the baroque
> malfunctions are so esoteric that Windows users come to *linux* forums for help.
>
> Now that I've done a little Windows development, I'm not surprised at how weak
> the help in Windows forums is.  People imagine themselves Mighty Software
> Engineers, when all they do is about 10 or 15 lengthy sequences of shortcuts,
> and they know how to get Visual Studio .NET to do drop-down method selection.
> They run on supersition and faulty logic.
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