Faulty Software Updater on 16.04

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 07 Oct 2017 18:21:20 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
>On Sat, 2017-10-07 at 22:21 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 7 October 2017 at 22:07, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com>
>> wrote:  
>> > 
>> > Because firefox, in its malicious design, will not let the Home
>> > Page be left  blank,  I entered the word "blank" for the Home
>> > Page, and it goes to blank.com, which redirects to malicious web
>> > sites.  
>> 
>> The correct way of getting a blank page is to use about:blank  
>
>Not only is this the correct way, it's ALWAYS been the correct way
>since Netscape Navigator, 20 years ago.  Also, it's the correct way to
>get a blank page in every single browser, not just Mozilla, including
>proprietary browsers from Microsoft and Apple.

It still would be wrong, even if it should be possible, to enforce a
blank page without removing the malicious software. We don't know what
Bret actually has done, he only mentioned "I have done that (not the
upgrade)". "done that" seemingly was following
http://www.myantispyware.com/2017/06/30/how-to-remove-search-rspark-com-chrome-firefox-ie-edge/
and hopefully it was
http://www.myantispyware.com/2017/06/30/how-to-remove-search-rspark-com-chrome-firefox-ie-edge/#mfirefox

FWIW Bret should consider to also read
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/remove-toolbar-has-taken-over-your-firefox-search
especially
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/remove-toolbar-has-taken-over-your-firefox-search#w_how-did-this-happen
and perhaps subscribe to a Mozilla community mailing list
https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo