Who hijacked my Web page?

Paul LICHT plicht@berkeley.edu
Sun, 23 Jun 2013 07:53:47 PDT
We had this happen on numerous computers in the Garden last week, but only
with Firefox (not Chrome or IE). Very difficult to remove. I believe much
of the problem resides with the Addon 'Shockwave Flash' (Flash is
notoriously bad in this way).  I first had to use CCleaner (freeware
http://download.cnet.com/CCleaner/…) and then
disable to Addon.  You may also have to clean up with programs like Spybot
and Mawarebyte (both freeware).

Paul

-- 
Paul Licht, Director
University of California Botanical Garden
200 Centennial Drive
Berkeley, CA 94720
(510)-643-8999http://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu



On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 6:28 AM, <arnold140@verizon.net> wrote:

>  I couldn't see it as well.
>
> Using Firefox on a Mac.
>
> Arnold
>
>
> On 06/23/13, David Pilling wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> In message <5aef548571a45b1cf00c110d1c2be3d0.squirrel@http://www.possi.org/>,
> Leo A. Martin <leo@possi.org> writes
> >Authoring, hosting, browser. I bet it's your Web hosting.
>
> I don't see the links when I visit the web site, so my guess would be
> some sort of browser plug in - often useful free software brings with it
> undesirable commercial addons unless you're careful to untick the
> relevant boxes.
>
> Browsers usually have a section that lets you control what plugins are
> loaded.
>
>
>
> --
> David Pilling
> email: david@pilling.demon.co.uk
>  web: http://www.davidpilling.net/
>
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