Faulty Software Updater on 16.04

[Bret Busby]

On 08/10/2017, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7 October 2017 at 19:15, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> What does "the ESR version" mean? Does it come as a .deb package, for
>> simple installation?
>
> Google it.
>
> I also told you how to install it. Google that, too.
>
>> 1. It is v54, to which I referred as malware.
>>
>> I would go so far to say that firefox v54 is a trojan.
>
> [ranting deleted]
>
> As I said to Owen Thomas yesterday.
>
> Do you really think that if that happened to everyone, it would just
> be ignored? That no reviewer or tester would have noticed and reported
> it? That everyone running F'fox 54 got the same and nobody complained?
>
> That idea is _ridiculous_ and it does not take deep introspection or
> study to realise that.
>
> I am not saying it did not happen to _you_ but it didn't happen to
> everyone else running F'fox 54. Of _course_ it didn't or there would
> have been an international outcry.
>
> Therefore it was just you and you got some screwed settings or a
> malicious addon.
>
> So I Googled it and this was the 3rd hit.
>
> http://www.myantispyware.com/2017/06/30/how-to-remove-search-rspark-com-chrome-firefox-ie-edge/
>
> Nothing to do with Ff 54. A malicious seach addon. Remove that, you're
> good and you can upgrade your machine as normal.
>
>
>

Now that I have done that (not the upgrade), and have to try to figure
out how to get firefox to work, again, in opening a new window, it now
goes to some malicious web site roblox.com.

It really seems to confirm firefox 54 as a trojan.

-- 

Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia

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 you'll know what the answer means."
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 Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
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 published by Pan Books, 1992

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