Sends back info of bank passwords etc to Russia. http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/12/04/Firefox_users_targeted_by_rare_piece_of_malware_1.html
I just don't do online banking at all. I can get an account balance and withdrawal at an ATM, I can mail or carry checks to the bank. I have one purpose built computer completely whitelisted by a hardware firewall, still why bother with online banking, am I confined to my room or something? That whitelisted machine never, ever, has ANY problems. The surfing machine is always a little screwed up, when it becomes really annoying I reinstall the OS with a full format....
Next time your rebuild just make a backup copy with Acronis True Image and make a bootable CD and shove the backup on DVD / external HDD. Whenever you think there is something not right it takes less than 10 minutes to have the machine restored (in my case about 4 minutes). No configuring etc required. Maria
That would make more sense, I have the Norton Restore software but I just feel over organized doing that... it feels good to just destroy a hard drive with a format for some reason.... I'm sure there is a love-hate thingie twix'n me and computers but I'm just not over it yet...
Isn't that better if your OS is on a separate partition or 2nd HDD? When not, an XP "repair" works well too and can save a lot of reinstallation of apps and tweaking.
Thanks, taodr for the link, this does not look good. Anyway, am glad Firefox is doing something and we can soon surf in peace.
Formatting your hard drive doesn't ensure that you would be 100% virus free. Boot-sector virus, for example, will still remain after a fresh format. You can format your computer as much as you want, but them sneeky ones will come right back.
Fak me. Did a file search, and found a sub-folder of Firefox named Greasemonkey on my comp. Guess I better run an AV.