Yeah good luck with reproducing it cause it REALLY sounds like a mitm or a phishing attack trying to get people to download fake av. I would do a dns lookup and then compare those results to that of a public web service, and save the links for the AVs to check if they have any malicious history associated with them. On Jan 20, 2012 1:21 PM, "Wesley Kerfoot" <[email protected]> wrote:
> It turns out that it was a problem with firefox. However, I do not believe > I had any malicious addons or extensions for a few reasons. 1) I only had 4 > extensions, adblock plus, pentadactyl, firebug, and noscript. > 2) they were all vetted (presumably) by mozilla. > > I believe, and this is simply speculation, that the problem may have been > caused by noscript stopping/interfering with some scripts on facebook. > Facebook would assume it was malware interfering with the site, and attempt > to block it. I am 99% sure my browser was not really compromised. > > I'm going to try and reproduce it later. > > > On 19 January 2012 22:57, Byron Sonne <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> > “Your computer has malware!” Facebook says to me. >> >> I am really curious to know, assuming that everything you've said is >> accurate, how they determine you've got malware. This is rather curious. >> >> The more I think about it, the more I wonder if something's come between >> you and facebook pretending to be official, hoping to trick you into >> downloading something. >> >> Cheers >> >> -- >> freebyron.org >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ >
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