Re: Sudden alert
- From: Malke <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 07:01:51 -0800
Demon wrote:
I was browsing the internet yesterday (everything I was doing at
the time I had done before with no problems) when a critical alert
came up stating that some components of firefox were being blocked
from working properly so I just told it to unblock what was blocked
and went on (although I did do some scans to check for any nasties
just in case) but this has never happened before and I've been
using firefox for over a month now and have never gotten an alert
like this before. Just for note I haven't made any changes to the
browser although I did reinstall yahoo toolbar since I had to
remove it after it was altered when visiting a typo squatter site
by accident apart from that nothing has changed (and just for extra
note I was in the beginnings of starting a video in the browser
(using windows media player 11) but as with other things this has
never been a problem). I have has this kind of silly alert before
but with windows firewall stopping nero showtime from accessing the
hard drive which is kind of silly as the programme is installed on
the same hard drive it was trying to block it from gaining access
to. Is this anything I should be worried about or is this just a
bug that I shouldn't give a second thought
I scanned with spybot and windows defender plus I have macafee
siteadvisor for firefox installed and whenever I'm in doubt about a
site I always check the siteadvisor analasys for the site first before
I go there and the only nasties I've had in my computer since it was
connected to the internet two months ago was two temp files relating
to hotsearchbar and those were removed by spybot.
As I'd already mentioned the alert said that some components of
firefox were being blocked and as I can recall there is no malware
that can attach itself to firefox and I have it setup so that I'm
notified if any extentions are trying to install themselves (although
I do remember that there was another warning about a certificate for a
site I wasn't even on at the time but as I was on a forum at the time
it could've been from an image that was from that site plus it only
showed up once). The only other piece of software I'd installed before
this was windows defender so I'm not sure if that is the cause.
Also as I'd mentioned windows media player has started to run (but
within the browser itself) at the exact time the alert came up so I'm
not sure if it was this that was being blocked at the time.
Certainly malware can affect Firefox in Windows. In fact, there is a
password vulnerability exploit out right now.
Your posts are extremely difficult to read since they are dense and
pretty much stream-of-consciousness. I rather think the blocking and
alerts are not coming from the Windows Firewall but rather from some
other security/antivirus software but frankly it is too difficult to
tell from your posts.
Review what security/antivirus software you have installed and look at
the firewall component's options.
Malke
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