Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-20 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 11:55:09PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-10-19 at 12:46 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: I'm running iceweasel 17.0.9 which,as you know, is just a rebranded firefox. When I access mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new it tells me I'm using the latest version of

Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Robert Holtzman wrote: Ralf Mardorf wrote: Robert Holtzman wrote: I'm running iceweasel 17.0.9 which,as you know, is just a rebranded firefox. When I access mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new it tells me I'm using the latest version of firefox and doesn't give an option of downloading a

Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-19 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 09:34:02AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 16:00 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: Install the extension/addon 'noscript' As already mentioned, I don't want to install another add-on. If I need javascript disabled, I can use another browser and if

Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-10-19 at 12:46 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: I'm running iceweasel 17.0.9 which,as you know, is just a rebranded firefox. When I access mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new it tells me I'm using the latest version of firefox and doesn't give an option of downloading a new browser.

Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-14 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 06:11:18PM +0200, Marko Randjelovic wrote: As far I see, Kaspersky supports only Windows. There's Mac and Linux products also from them. -- Bob Bernstein I am dissatisfied, profoundly so, with the world as it is. But I would be dissatisfied with any world.

Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 16:00 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: Install the extension/addon 'noscript' As already mentioned, I don't want to install another add-on. If I need javascript disabled, I can use another browser and if happens to me, what happens to the OP, I'm fixing it the way I described.

Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 07:11 +0400, recovery...@gmail.com wrote: This is outdated page indeed. Apparently Mozilla Foundation decided that it will be more user-friendly to double-click on 'javascript.enabled' at about:config page :) I agree that the smartest way is to use an add-on, assumed a

Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 14:15 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: What? does everyone have their menus turned off? (Edit menu - Preferences - Contents tab - disable JavaScript. Or am I missing something here?) I didn't refer to Iceweasel for Debian, but tried to help the OP to solve the issue and I wasn't

Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-14 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 10:04 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 14:15 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: What? does everyone have their menus turned off? (Edit menu - Preferences - Contents tab - disable JavaScript. Or am I missing something here?) I didn't refer to Iceweasel for

Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-14 Thread John Lindsay
Just an update --- ran clamtk (clamav) several times until it was clear. Got avast downloaded and installed and ran it twice. Opened a new iceweasel then closed it -- reopened and got the 'restore sessions' message, selected new session and things are back to normal. Thanks for the

Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 17:27 -0400, John Lindsay wrote: Just an update --- ran clamtk (clamav) several times until it was clear. Got avast downloaded and installed and ran it twice. Opened a new iceweasel then closed it -- reopened and got the 'restore sessions' message, selected new session

ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-13 Thread John Lindsay
Somehow my iceweasel has been infected with the UKASH scam. I have tried my kapersky rescue disc and it told me my system has been cleaned (this disc was made late 2011/early 2012 and it did an update prior to scanning). If I run iceweasel after a reboot the ukash blocker shows up. How can I

Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 09:58 -0400, John Lindsay wrote: Somehow my iceweasel has been infected with the UKASH scam. I have tried my kapersky rescue disc and it told me my system has been cleaned (this disc was made late 2011/early 2012 and it did an update prior to scanning). If I run

Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 16:33 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 09:58 -0400, John Lindsay wrote: Somehow my iceweasel has been infected with the UKASH scam. I have tried my kapersky rescue disc and it told me my system has been cleaned (this disc was made late 2011/early 2012

Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-13 Thread Marko Randjelovic
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 09:58:47 -0400 John Lindsay jcl...@sentex.net wrote: Somehow my iceweasel has been infected with the UKASH scam. I have tried my kapersky rescue disc and it told me my system has been cleaned (this disc was made late 2011/early 2012 and it did an update prior to

Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-13 Thread recoverym4n
Hi. On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 09:58 -0400, John Lindsay wrote: IIUC this is the thingy that doesn't allow to close a tab. When this happens for Firefox here, I kill Firefox and then start it again. Firefox usually asks, if the last session should be restored or not, so don't restore the

Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 00:06 +0400, recovery...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 09:58 -0400, John Lindsay wrote: IIUC this is the thingy that doesn't allow to close a tab. When this happens for Firefox here, I kill Firefox and then start it again. Firefox usually asks, if

Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 11:54:41PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I've got Ghostery installed, I'm using Ghostery to detect trackers, but I can't find how to use it to disable scripts. Install the extension/addon 'noscript' -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people

Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-13 Thread recoverym4n
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 23:54:41 +0200 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Disable javascript, reload offending tab (optional), close offending tab, enable javascript. I mean, why bother with complex solutions if there are simple ones? I never tried it that way, because I

Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-13 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 5:06 AM, recovery...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 09:58 -0400, John Lindsay wrote: IIUC this is the thingy that doesn't allow to close a tab. When this happens for Firefox here, I kill Firefox and then start it again. Firefox usually asks, if the last