{SPAM?} Re: [SLUG] got a popup on Firefox 3, Suse 10.2

From: Pamela J. Ashworth (webmail) (pashworth@mindspring.com)
Date: Sun Apr 05 2009 - 12:07:48 EDT


thanks
oh. for a second, I thought it said Scan Linux for Rookies
darn.
:-)

-----Original Message-----
>From: Jonathan Brown <jbssfl@yahoo.com>
>Sent: Apr 5, 2009 4:15 AM
>To: slug@nks.net
>Subject: Re: [SLUG] got a popup on Firefox 3, Suse 10.2
>
>
>I doubt it touched your system, but you could run a rootkit scanner just in case:
>
>See here:
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>http://www.howtoforge.com/scan_linux_for_rootkits
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>With debian-based it's a simple apt-get (or aptitude) install chkrootkit (rkhunter is good too)
>
>However, like the howto says, it's generally better to compile and put it on removable media, then run the check on the system from there.
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>
>
>----- Original Message ----
>From: Pamela J. Ashworth (webmail) <pashworth@mindspring.com>
>To: slug at nks net <slug@nks.net>
>Sent: Saturday, April 4, 2009 11:44:05 PM
>Subject: [SLUG] got a popup on Firefox 3, Suse 10.2
>
>happened kinda quick. it was like one of those, you've got a virus things.
>I was on my way to closing the pop-up (I never get popups here) by using the little x (i never click No. don't trust the box) but due to the fact that I use a remote control/keyboard mouse, it was taking a few seconds.
>in the meantime all sort of other windows started popping up, (including ones that *looked like* downloads but I was F4'ing too furiously (and futilely) to read them.
>Finally I gave up and sent an alt shift backspace which killed kde and the browser with it.
>
>after logging back in to the desktop, and *not* restoring my session, firefox started at the usual page, and history shows a page called Virus Doctor- Online Protection with a url of
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>http://scanner.av1-best-click.info/scan.php?campaign=mmb_long number i can't type out and can't paste cuase it's not on this machine and there is no way i am going to click on it
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>think I caught anything? aside from checking my browser homepage, i really don't know how to tell in linux.
>I had a spyware infection in Windows (98) about 5 years ago that required a reinstall of the OS, but other than that, I haven't had any creepy crawlies in Windows. No idea about Linux.
>
>--
>Pam from Boston
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