[dba-Tech] Bundled Adware in IE?

Yeah, I think it's malware, too. Thanks, John.  I think you are right 
that the malware did the redirecting.
TNF

Tina Norris Fields
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On 12/10/2014 4:49 PM, John R Bartow wrote:
> Redirector malware. (We quit calling adware when it does something like
> this.) V9 was an especially difficult one to remove.
>
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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-----
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>> Norris Fields
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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
>>>
>>>
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