-------- Original Message --------
Roger Fink wrote:
In my normal surfing with SeaMonkey, occasionally clicking a link will
open up an additional tab for a video downloader known to be malware
that looks similar to, but definitely is not, the one click Youtube
video downloader extension. Since it is not a pop-up, the pop-up blocker
has no effect. My impression is that it is not a random occurrence, as
it seems to know my computer, or at the very least it knows that the
one-click Youtube extension is installed, but neither Avast nor
Malwarebytes has ever picked it up.
I've managed to get it out of Firefox using the Block Site extension.
Unfortunately Block Site is not compatible with SeaMonkey, so I will
need to do something else to get rid of it. What is a simple way to do
this?
If you use AdBlock Plus, you can write a custom rule to block a
particular site or domain. ABP has other advantages, so you need not
install it only for this purpose.
I tried to do this in AB+ and the result was that all the blockable
items on the site were blocked but that didn't prevent the domain URL
from being launched, and for that matter with page links enabled (I
tried it). The text was listed on the page and at the top was a line of
underlined word links, including "download", which of course is the
thing you don't want to do.
The process is not totally intuitive (the link on how to do it within
the AB+ options was a dead link) but I assume that by creating a filter
blocking the entire domain "bad_domain.com/*" and adding it to the list
of user-blocked frames, images and so forth, that this is supposed to
prevent the URL from presenting itself, but that was not my experience.
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