[dba-Tech] Bundled Adware in IE?

Weird. The current DL link points to
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/?scene=2#download-fx

which downloads Firefox Setup Stub 34.0.5.exe and that does not appear to go anywhere near the dread CNET.

Lambert


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From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tina Norris Fields
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 11:50 AM
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Yeah, that's what I did - I went to mozilla.org, but the download links took us to cnet (definitely not my favorite place).
TNF

Tina Norris Fields
tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-com
231-322-2787

On 12/10/2014 8:55 AM, Heenan, Lambert wrote:
> Exactly. What reason is there to go anywhere else but Mozilla.org?
>
> Not all add-ins are bad of course. Web Of Trust is one I have in Chrome that I would not do without. Nor have I found Chrome to be 'hammered' with any unwanted add-ins. IMHO a major culprit is installation programs for other programs which have additional payloads that install if you do not pay attention to all those dialog boxes in the install process.
>
> Lambert
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com 
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John R 
> Bartow
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 11:52 PM
> To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
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> Importance: High
>
> Which brings up a good point - download from the original developer (if possible).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of 
> peter.brawley at earthlink.net
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 7:56 PM
> To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com; dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Bundled Adware in IE?
>
> most sites offering ff downloads bundle it with crapware.
>
> pb
>
> ---- Original Message ----
> From: "Tina Norris Fields" <tinanfields at torchlake.com>
> Reply-To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues"
> <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Date: 12/09/14 4:40 PM
> To: "DatabaseAdvisors-Tech" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Cc:
> Sub: [dba-Tech] Bundled Adware in IE?
> Hi,
>
> My sister just purchased a new Dell Latitude, with Win 8.1. Suddenly, 
> pop-ups appeared all over IE, Firefox seemed to disappear and become 
> Speed Browser, a bunch of icons appeared on her desktop that were 
> unwelcome.  I got into IE and found add-ons that were aggressive 
> adware
> - at least a dozen of them - and their "disable" option was unavailable.  I did finally get rid of them, but I was astonished to see them in the first place.  Has anybody else had this experience with a brand new machine?
>
> She had used IE to download Firefox, and was about to download her favorite antivirus program, when pop-ups began proliferating all over the screen.
> Some had nice little Xs in the top right corner, that looked like commands to close, but, when she clicked the X instead of stopping, it behaved as though she had said "Yes, go ahead."  This so frustrated her that she just shut down the computer.
>
> So, today, I spent several hours cleaning it up.
>
> Thanks,
> TNF
>
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