Re: Linux (oe mozilla-firebird) Virus?

From: Nico Coetzee (abuse_at_mweb.co.za)
Date: 08/16/03 

Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 23:52:39 +0200

On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 12:03:15 +0000, Ron Abramson wrote:

> I am seeing some strange stuff. I am running debian sid on one machine and
> mozilla-firebird, which was downloaded from mozilla.org. When I attempt
> access a site (e.g., my.yahoo.com, or any other site for that matter) by
> fetching its URL from the address bar drop down I do not go to that site.
> Instead, I briefly see "about:blank" in the address bar, and then I am
> redirected to www.web1000.com. Shortly thereafter all sorts of programs
> spawn spontaneously, including kmail and htdig, among others. At that
> point I reboot - It looks like it is trying to harvest information from my
> machine and perhaps install god-knows what. Has anyone else seen anything
> like this?

I have installed Firebird 0.6.1 a couple of hours ago, and no -
I don't see this.

Did you install other extensions or themes? 

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