<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I think I've got the homepage back, and am now confident that nothing untoward has happened to my computer.<br><br>There should be an .com at the end of the web address name.<br><br>Thanks for the help, Much appreciated.<br><br>Ron<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 29/4/11, David Aldred <i><davidaldred@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: David Aldred <davidaldred@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [Nottingham] An attack through Firefox?<br>To: "Notts GNU/Linux Users Group" <nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk><br>Date: Friday, 29 April, 2011, 9:49<br><br><div id="yiv1616156258">
<div class="yiv1616156258gmail_quote">On 29 April 2011 09:36, Ron Wilton <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:ron_w_add@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=ron_w_add@yahoo.co.uk">ron_w_add@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="yiv1616156258gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font: inherit;" valign="top"><br>I've just done a Google search using Mozilla Firefox (3.6.16). Instead of getting a Google page I have got <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://freescannerdefeformation">http://freescannerdefeformation</a> saying 'Your Computer in infected' and a list of 9 infections. The page in Firefox shows up as a Windows page with the tab saying 'Windows Security'.<br>
<br>Also, there is s box wanting me to open 'AntiSpyWareSetup.exe. I have neither asked for this software to be downloaded and I've NOT downloaded this.<br><br>I've turned the computer off, and restarted it. The above security message comes up again when I try to start Firefox. I've taken the desktop off line and am now using my netbook.<br>
<br>I've done a search on 'freescannerdefeformationcne' and nothing comes up.<br><br>Can anyone advise me of what is happening, please? <br><br>I know not to download
the software they appear to want me to do, but how do I stop this page coming up when I start up Firefox.<br><br></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div><br>Have you got Firefox set to display windows and tabs from your last session when it starts up (this is on Edit->Preferences, General tab)? If so I suspect this is what's happening; you somehow got diverted to a rogue page (one attempting to con people into believing they have a Windows virus) which is now being shown whenever you start Firefox simply because it's the last window you had open. <br>
<br>The URL you've given (even the revised one) is not a complete URL, though, so I can't have a look in any way to see what's on there - it's lacking any top level domain (such as .com., .net, .uk etc). <br>
</div></div><br>-- <br>David Aldred<br>
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