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 are under Linux or a similar system, some people keeps a backlist of
domains in /etc/hosts. Blacklisting a domain there prevents access to
anything in it, by any program.
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