There's some kind of exploit running around that tries to freeze your browser by repeated file saves while posting a "You have been PWNED! Call 1-800-xxx-yyyy for help!" message, then they talk you out of your credit card number, and so on, and so forth. Affects several browsers, there were earlier fixes but they're broken at the moment. It sounds like your computer is too old for the exploit to work correctly.
The immediate cure is to delete the window/tab that is running the exploit, if you can identify it. When you start firefox is it loading a collection of saved tabs? -- rec -- On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 11:53 PM Nick Thompson <nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > After a time, when Firefox has been running, Windows Explorer begins > spawning new windows explorer processes (as indicated by the Windows Task > Manager) at a frantic rate, roughly two per second. They are all a little > over 2k but not exactly the same. When I close Firefox it does not stop, > but if I don’t open Firefox, it does not start. It does not happen with > Windows Internet Explorer. Those are the only two browsers I have. > > > > Has anybody experienced anything like this? Eventually it uses up > enormous amounts of memory on the machine and I suppose will ultimately > crash it. > > > > N > > > > > > > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > > Clark University > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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