You are welcome. But this note is about Adobe Flash Cookies. Is that what you meant? Anyway I came across Combofix just a short while ago when Googling and it is the only package that works on really tough viruses and root kits.
I send a donation to the authors whenever it fixes a PC for one of my clients. They deserve it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Madigan" <[email protected]> To: "ProFox Email List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 2:18 PM Subject: Re: [NF] Firefox 3.6 Memory Use Thanks Nick. Your Combofix recommendation was awesome, it was the only thing that fixed my problem. --- On Wed, 2/3/10, Nicholas Geti <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Nicholas Geti <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [NF] Firefox 3.6 Memory Use > To: "ProFox Email List" <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 9:35 AM > Are you aware of a new type of virus > that invade Adobe Flash? They are > called Flash Cookies and are totally outside the control of > Windows. They > are ten times the size of Windows cookies and are easily > compromised because > any web site that uses them can deposit one on your PC > without asking. > Hackers can take advantage of this property. > > Go to this site > http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager02.html > to download a manager from Adobe that lets you remove Flash > Cookies and then > set up options that will ask you if you want to install a > Flash Cookie when > a site attempts to download one. Note that almost every web > site uses them. > When you go to the menu that removes existing cookies you > will be amazed how > many are there and many look dangerous. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dave Crozier" <[email protected]> > To: "'ProFox Email List'" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 1:46 AM > Subject: RE: [NF] Firefox 3.6 Memory Use > > > > Gene, > > My experience is somewhat similar. I have still had > the memory usage up > > and > > the consequent "we are sorry...there was a problem" > message but not half > > as > > much as with 3.7. The real thing that seems to screw > it up is Flash after > > a > > while it just goes mental and I wonder whether this is > a flash problem as > > opposed to a Firefox problem, but there you go. > > > > On a slightly different tack, the new Google Chrome is > much, much slicker > > than the older version and it certainly seems to be > coming up on the rails > > as a browser contender now that there are addons > available. > > > > Dave Crozier > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf > > Of Gene Wirchenko > > Sent: 03 February 2010 04:38 > > To: ProFox Email List > > Subject: [NF] Firefox 3.6 Memory Use > > > > Dear Vixens and Reynards: > > > > Firefox 3.5.6 (and earlier > versions) had memory issues. Over > > time, it would nibble memory. Task Manager > showed it once as having > > just over 591,000K and during the subsequent > termination, it got to > > just over 600,000K. This was on my 1GB system. > > > > Firefox 3.6 appears to be acting > better, but had about 1/2 GB > > recently. It seems to have gone down by itself > to about 1/3 GB. > > > > Does anyone know why? I am > wondering if VFP is involved as it > > is the other program running on my system that will > take all it can get. > > > > What are your experiences with > Firefox 3.6? > > > > Sincerely, > > > > Gene Wirchenko > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/eff1837217af4f4ca2e434de59ad9...@dual ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
