Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel
On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 09:58 -0400, John Lindsay wrote:
> Somehow my iceweasel has been infected with the UKASH scam. I have tried
> my kapersky rescue disc and it told me my system has been cleaned (this
> disc was made late 2011/early 2012 and it did an update prior to
> scanning). If I run iceweasel after a reboot the ukash blocker shows up.
> How can I get rid of this without 'blowing' away all the info on my HD
> (primarily icedove mail).
IIUC this is the thingy that doesn't allow to close a tab. When this
happens for Firefox here, I kill Firefox and then start it again.
Firefox usually asks, if the last session should be restored or not, so
don't restore the killed session. If Firefox shouldn't ask but
automatically restore the killed session, then it usually does work, to
close the tabs, before the site is loaded. After this Firefox is ok
again and can be closed and opened without issues.
I usually do the same for sites that ask again and again, if you want to
leave the page or if you want to stay. This crap is a PITA, even
"reliable" web pages sometimes ask, if you are sure, that you want to
leave their website. To ask isn't bad per se, but I never noticed this
question, when it makes sense and it especially doesn't make sense to
ask this questions 20 times, before you can leave.
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