Firefox Hijacked?

[Benjamin Zeller]

On Wednesday 05 July 2006 11:42, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> ajgreeny wrote:
> > Can't see the screenshot you said you'd sent, perhaps you forgot.
>
> No, he didn't forget. The attachment made it through quite fine - you
> should check your mailservers, I'd suppose.
>
> Reg. the question the OP had: Haven't seen it before. I'd suggest
> to create a new profile by running "firefox -profilemanager" and
> then, step by step, I'd copy the files from the old profile (to be
> found under ~/.mozilla/firefox) to the new profile, until it breaks
> again.

I'd have a look in the list of installed extensions first.

>
> > If what you are seeing is an advert, have you tried using the adblock
> > extension for firefox?  It could be just what you are looking for.
>
> That's a good advice - adblock really is a MUST, IMO.

A must an nearly hard to beat in combination with Filterset.G.Updater, my 
recommendation.

>
> Alexander Skwar

Benni

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