Heenan, Lambert
Lambert.Heenan at aig.com
Wed Dec 10 13:18:27 CST 2014
What makes you say that? What do you see that's not pointing at Mozilla? -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John R Bartow Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 1:54 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Bundled Adware in IE? Importance: High Appears to have a redirector installed. -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Heenan, Lambert Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 12:11 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [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 -----Original Message----- 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 To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Bundled Adware in IE? 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' > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Bundled Adware in IE? > 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 > > -- > Tina Norris Fields > tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-com > 231-322-2787 > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > ---- End Original Message ---- > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com