shadowfla Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 Hello fellow anti spyware soldiersmy firefox 1.0.4 has been infected by something!every 2 minutes one of my open tabs redirects itself to either : smileycentral, dirty hippo, spotsearch, or hotpussysingles.its SO annoying and i cant find out what the spyware is!i have ewido, spybot, adaware, counterspy, hijack this, spyware blaster, spyware guard, NONE of them pick it up, even with realtime protection on . Ive scanned my computer with all of these softwares and removed some other misc spyware, but this problem doesnt seem to go away! help me defeat these evail invaders! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bâshrat the Sneaky Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 Check Task Manager > Processes. Is there anything obscure in this list? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n7Epsilon Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 Click > Tools > Extensions,Are there any unfamiliar extensions installed...Check also the %ProgramFiles%\Mozilla FireFox\plugins folder for unusual filenames and delete them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n7Epsilon Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 I'm guessing a rogue program in background executing FireFox.exe with these sites as their argument or a rogue plugin or a rogue extension... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ODC Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 hotpussysingles, eh? Well, nothing wrong with that. As others have stated, it probably isn't firefox that is infected, but rather an external process that is launching your default browser with the webpages.Maybe you can (temporarily) set Opera or IE as the default browser and see if those browsers exhibit the same problem. Also, have you run the big three anti-spyware applications to try and rid yourself of this problem? http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.htmlhttp://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/s...re/default.mspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technoguy Posted July 23, 2005 Share Posted July 23, 2005 well others r rite well if ya got IE just check ur c:\programfiles\common files folder all these crap wud be installed there and yeah do get the Firefox Adblock extension Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowfla Posted July 23, 2005 Author Share Posted July 23, 2005 (edited) ok guys, as mentioned in original post ive scanned using all the big anti spyware programsbut thanks for the tip on plugins, i checked the extensions and all the extensions are normal, but when i checked the plugins folder i found "Icenet" corporation dlls and even a netpumper plugin dll. From previous knowledge i know that netpumper plugin is spyware. so this may have been the problem, the only way is to wait and see. thanks for the help everyoneedit: forgot to mention, id already checked the processes list one by one, nothing suspicious on it Edited July 23, 2005 by shadowfla Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarun Posted July 23, 2005 Share Posted July 23, 2005 This should be in the Malware Prevention part of the forums. There's information on how to clean your pc there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleepnmojo Posted July 23, 2005 Share Posted July 23, 2005 Why don't you just uninstall firefox, delete the folder to get the extra files, then reinstall. Make a new profile, and that should be the easiest way to clean it. You can grab your bookmarks.htm, and prefs.js file. Now you have a clean install of firefox again. If it shows the same problems, it is something else in your system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowfla Posted July 23, 2005 Author Share Posted July 23, 2005 that woudlnt work i think because it seems to be an external process that starts the pages. the fix i mentioned before didnt work, my problem is still there. ill try reinstall and see what happens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwner Posted July 23, 2005 Share Posted July 23, 2005 More popular Firefox gets, more of a target it will become for spammers. Thankfully, IE still holds its share above 90%, thus concentrating most of the spammers on it. Firefox is not bulletproof, no software is.Besides, read my signature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleepnmojo Posted July 23, 2005 Share Posted July 23, 2005 that woudlnt work i think because it seems to be an external process that starts the pages. the fix i mentioned before didnt work, my problem is still there. ill try reinstall and see what happens<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Its not to fix the problem. It is to rule out the possibility of spyware in firefox. If it is an external program, they are a lot easier to rule out, as there are a limited number of places that it can start up automatically.I'm trying to find out if it is a problem that would be firefox specific, which I doubt it is. Most likely he had spyware installed already and it downloaded some updates.People shouldn't fall behind the false security of "spyware removers". Learn to use them as tools to remove it yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lare2 Posted July 23, 2005 Share Posted July 23, 2005 .......i have ewido, spybot, adaware, counterspy, hijack this, spyware blaster, spyware guard, NONE of them pick it up, even with realtime protection on . Ive scanned my computer with all of these softwares and removed some other misc spyware, but this problem doesnt seem to go away! help me defeat these evail invaders!<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Try to do the scan in safe mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigDane Posted July 23, 2005 Share Posted July 23, 2005 hi shadowflayou need help and i recomend hijackthis and this site herespyware warrior forummember of ASAP : Alliance of Security Analysis Professionals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowfla Posted July 27, 2005 Author Share Posted July 27, 2005 helo everyone. ive tried reinstalling firefox. it is defiinitely an external process.scanning under safe mode didnt help.hijack this didnt help (ive tried it before as laready mentioned)sleepnmojo, what is the next thing i should check up? now that it is understood that it is an external process? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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