[dba-Tech] Bundled Adware in IE?

In my opinion, it should be illegal for any hardware vendor to do this.

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Tina Norris Fields <
tinanfields at torchlake.com> wrote:

> Yeah, I think it's malware, too. Thanks, John.  I think you are right that
> the malware did the redirecting.
> TNF
>
> Tina Norris Fields
> tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-com
> 231-322-2787
>
> 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.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tina Norris
>> Fields
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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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