@nick re:FireFox yeah that' sounds like all the fingerprints of a (fortunatly) horribly failed JavaScript aholery. Sadly my 3 year oold computer with even FFLegacy or Quanttum get the full terrible english or as hillarius a computer text to voice bullshit. I'll first try killing that windows (a chrome thing) or failing that just go to windows task manager and killing the whole fucking browser--lol kind of hard for some punk bitch script kiddie to fuck with my computer if the browser aint running
I also sugest seeing if you can get a program called MalWare bites, Your browser may also be able to use a popup blocking extensions, and ghostery as well FWIW between those I generally don't get to many douchebags trying to spam. I sugest malwarebytes because it might help clean out what ever bullshit they tried to use. On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 8:01 AM, Roger Critchlow <r...@elf.org> wrote: > 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 >> > > ============================================================ > 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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