Opera Crash leaves me a little uneasy

[Bret Busby]

On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, Wade Smart wrote:

> 
> 20090221 1003 GMT-5
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> About ten minutes ago I was on a news site. I had clicked on a link but
> nothing was happening. I waited and waiting; stopped the link and
> reloaded - nothing. Then all the tabs I had up were doing the same
> thing. I turned off the browser and restarted. First thing that popped
> up was a error box stating where to find plugins. Apparently it didnt
> know where any where. I click browse to where the plugins were. The
> browser start but lost all my pages it usually saves upon restart.
>
> Even though I have shown it where the three locations are for plugins -
> opera, mozilla and flash non free, I cant play flash or audio files.
>
> I have since noticed a few other problems: first, all pages load very
> slow - if at all - though they do load in FF. When it is loading a page,
> my entire system gets slow. I had the window manager open navigating to
> the location where the plugins are and it was running very very slow.
>
> Because I have had several other problems lately this has really got me
> feeling a bit scared --- that my system has totally become unstable.
>
> Wade
>
>

The link wasn't to a PDF file, was it?

In the last 24 hours, I have receivd a CERT advisory regarding PDF files 
and Adobe Reader, and malicious code.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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