[dba-Tech] Bundled Adware in IE?

Redirector malware. (We quit calling adware when it does something like
this.) V9 was an especially difficult one to remove.

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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 2:52 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
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Lambert, that certainly seems true, today, using my computer.  
Yesterday, using the new computer, we were consistently dumped into cnet.
Wonder what I was doing wrong.  If you have an idea about that, please let
me know. Thanks.
TNF

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

On 12/10/2014 1:10 PM, Heenan, Lambert wrote:
> 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
>>
>>

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