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I clicked on a link relating to cad A video window came up with a message

that before i could view it I had to down load a [?]

I saved it to disk. Now when I Click on firefox a Window comes up.

"You have chosen to open ig which is an application/octet stream for

http:/google.co.nz

what should firefox do with this application" Browsing has slowed

considerably.

Any ideas,

Thanks

John

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Guest Bert Kinney
Posted

Re: Firefox problem

 

Hi John,

 

Could you provide a link as an example?

 

Regards,

Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User

http://bertk.mvps.org

Member: http://dts-l.org

 

 

JohnH wrote:

> I clicked on a link relating to cad A video window came up with a message

> that before i could view it I had to down load a [?]

> I saved it to disk. Now when I Click on firefox a Window comes up.

> "You have chosen to open ig which is an application/octet stream for

> http:/google.co.nz

> what should firefox do with this application" Browsing has slowed

> considerably.

> Any ideas,

> Thanks

> John

Guest Nightowl
Posted

Re: Firefox problem

 

JohnH <1234@nospam.com> wrote on Thu, 6 Sep 2007:

>I clicked on a link relating to cad A video window came up with a message

>that before i could view it I had to down load a [?]

>I saved it to disk. Now when I Click on firefox a Window comes up.

>"You have chosen to open ig which is an application/octet stream for

>http:/google.co.nz

>what should firefox do with this application" Browsing has slowed

>considerably.

>Any ideas,

 

John, have a look in Firefox Tools | Options, Main and see what your

homepage is set to. I wonder if it might possibly be iGoogle. If so, you

can change it back here to a default Mozilla page, one of your bookmarks

or a blank page (type about:blank in the box).

 

--

Nightowl

Posted

Re: Firefox problem

 

The link is http://www.google.co.nz

The problem occurs when I try to open my google home page,

ig file is something to do with google homepage

As I can't get the google start page I type in http://www.yahoo.com and down the

bottom it says "opening us.js2.yimg.com"

Thanks

John

 

"Bert Kinney" <bert@NSmvps.org> wrote in message

news:OvziQiD8HHA.5456@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

> Hi John,

>

> Could you provide a link as an example?

>

> Regards,

> Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User

> http://bertk.mvps.org

> Member: http://dts-l.org

>

>

> JohnH wrote:

>> I clicked on a link relating to cad A video window came up with a message

>> that before i could view it I had to down load a [?]

>> I saved it to disk. Now when I Click on firefox a Window comes up.

>> "You have chosen to open ig which is an application/octet stream for

>> http:/google.co.nz

>> what should firefox do with this application" Browsing has slowed

>> considerably.

>> Any ideas,

>> Thanks

>> John

Guest Anteaus
Posted

Re: Firefox problem

 

If there is any chance the download has been launched/run, I would do a

spyware scan with Ad-aware or the like.

 

Also look under tools>extensions and look for any Firefox add-ons that

shoudln't be there.

 

Firefox itself is very well protected against web-based attacks, but the

fact is that on any browser, malware can still be installed by manually

downloading and launching it.

 

Demanding that 'plugins' be updated is a favorite ploy used by malware sites

to get you to install Trojans. Never accept any such offers, if you need the

latest Flash or whatever, type 'www.adobe.com' directly into the URL bar, so

you KNOW you're getting the update from the genuine source.

 

For the same reason I generally turn update-notification off, the problem is

not with the updates themselves, but with the fact that these popups might

also be from malware sites. You can't tell, and therein lies the problem.

 

I reckon it was a Very Bad Idea to give Javascript the capability of of

popping borderless windows, this gives malware authors the capability of

simulating OS dialogs to a very high degree of realism -exactly what they

need in order to dupe visitors into installing Trojans. When dialogs can

appear on your screen that might be from your OS, or might be from a

malicious website, and you cannot tell which, that is not a good situation.

Posted

Re: Firefox problem

 

I did a system restore and it is back to normal. I'll take your advise.

According to my update history I have security update Firefox 2.0.0.6

(2007072518) installed 1 Jan 1970 31:00:00 Status undefined.

Thanks

John

"Anteaus" <Anteaus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:C7C6E739-2DB1-463F-B7A5-2E733C2DF444@microsoft.com...

> If there is any chance the download has been launched/run, I would do a

> spyware scan with Ad-aware or the like.

>

> Also look under tools>extensions and look for any Firefox add-ons that

> shoudln't be there.

>

> Firefox itself is very well protected against web-based attacks, but the

> fact is that on any browser, malware can still be installed by manually

> downloading and launching it.

>

> Demanding that 'plugins' be updated is a favorite ploy used by malware

> sites

> to get you to install Trojans. Never accept any such offers, if you need

> the

> latest Flash or whatever, type 'www.adobe.com' directly into the URL bar,

> so

> you KNOW you're getting the update from the genuine source.

>

> For the same reason I generally turn update-notification off, the problem

> is

> not with the updates themselves, but with the fact that these popups might

> also be from malware sites. You can't tell, and therein lies the problem.

>

> I reckon it was a Very Bad Idea to give Javascript the capability of of

> popping borderless windows, this gives malware authors the capability of

> simulating OS dialogs to a very high degree of realism -exactly what they

> need in order to dupe visitors into installing Trojans. When dialogs can

> appear on your screen that might be from your OS, or might be from a

> malicious website, and you cannot tell which, that is not a good

> situation.

>

>

Posted

Are any of these suspect?

 

Are any of these suspect?

 

 

ogfile of HijackThis v1.99.1

Scan saved at 21:57:31, on 06/09/2007

Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)

MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16512)

 

Running processes:

C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\Ati2evxx.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe

C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\ZoneLabs\vsmon.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\Ati2evxx.exe

C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE

C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe

C:\windows\system\hpsysdrv.exe

C:\Program Files\Hp\HP Software Update\HPWuSchd2.exe

C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVGFRE~1\avgcc.exe

C:\Program Files\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\zlclient.exe

C:\Program Files\Google\Google Desktop Search\GoogleDesktop.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\lgbpd.exe

C:\Program Files\Google\GoogleToolbarNotifier\GoogleToolbarNotifier.exe

C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\WMPNSCFG.exe

C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVGFRE~1\avgamsvr.exe

C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVGFRE~1\avgupsvc.exe

C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVGFRE~1\avgemc.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\cisvc.exe

C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe

C:\WINDOWS\System32\PAStiSvc.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe

C:\Program Files\Google\Google Desktop Search\GoogleDesktop.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32\cidaemon.exe

C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVGFRE~1\avgwb.dat

C:\WINDOWS\system32\conime.exe

C:\Program Files\HijackThis.exe

 

O2 - BHO: Adobe PDF Reader Link Helper -

{06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3} - C:\Program Files\Common

Files\Adobe\Acrobat\ActiveX\AcroIEHelper.dll

O2 - BHO: SSVHelper Class - {761497BB-D6F0-462C-B6EB-D4DAF1D92D43} -

C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_10\bin\ssv.dll

O2 - BHO: (no name) - {7E853D72-626A-48EC-A868-BA8D5E23E045} - (no file)

O2 - BHO: Google Toolbar Helper - {AA58ED58-01DD-4d91-8333-CF10577473F7} -

c:\program files\google\googletoolbar4.dll

O2 - BHO: Google Toolbar Notifier BHO -

{AF69DE43-7D58-4638-B6FA-CE66B5AD205D} - C:\Program

Files\Google\GoogleToolbarNotifier\2.0.301.7164\swg.dll

O3 - Toolbar: ImageShack Toolbar - {6932D140-ABC4-4073-A44C-D4A541665E35} -

C:\WINDOWS\ImageShackToolbar\ImageShackToolbar.dll

O3 - Toolbar: &Google - {2318C2B1-4965-11d4-9B18-009027A5CD4F} - c:\program

files\google\googletoolbar4.dll

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [iMJPMIG8.1] "C:\WINDOWS\IME\imjp8_1\IMJPMIG.EXE" /Spoil

/RemAdvDef /Migration32

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [MSPY2002] C:\WINDOWS\system32\IME\PINTLGNT\ImScInst.exe

/SYNC

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [PHIME2002ASync]

C:\WINDOWS\system32\IME\TINTLGNT\TINTSETP.EXE /SYNC

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [PHIME2002A] C:\WINDOWS\system32\IME\TINTLGNT\TINTSETP.EXE

/IMEName

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [hpsysdrv] c:\windows\system\hpsysdrv.exe

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [ATIPTA] C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI Control

Panel\atiptaxx.exe

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Recguard] C:\WINDOWS\SMINST\RECGUARD.EXE

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [HP Software Update] C:\Program Files\Hp\HP Software

Update\HPWuSchd2.exe

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AVG7_CC] C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVGFRE~1\avgcc.exe /STARTUP

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [ZoneAlarm Client] "C:\Program Files\Zone

Labs\ZoneAlarm\zlclient.exe"

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Google Desktop Search] "C:\Program Files\Google\Google

Desktop Search\GoogleDesktop.exe" /startup

O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [ctfmon.exe] C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe

O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [LGBLiveUpdate] C:\WINDOWS\system32\lgbpd.exe

O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [swg] C:\Program

Files\Google\GoogleToolbarNotifier\GoogleToolbarNotifier.exe

O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [WMPNSCFG] C:\Program Files\Windows Media

Player\WMPNSCFG.exe

O8 - Extra context menu item: Post Image to Blog -

res://C:\WINDOWS\ImageShackToolbar\ImageShackToolbar.dll/5003

O8 - Extra context menu item: Tag This Image -

res://C:\WINDOWS\ImageShackToolbar\ImageShackToolbar.dll/5002

O8 - Extra context menu item: Upload All Images to ImageShack -

res://C:\WINDOWS\ImageShackToolbar\ImageShackToolbar.dll/5000

O8 - Extra context menu item: Upload Image to ImageShack -

res://C:\WINDOWS\ImageShackToolbar\ImageShackToolbar.dll/5001

O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} -

C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_10\bin\ssv.dll

O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Sun Java Console -

{08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - C:\Program

Files\Java\jre1.5.0_10\bin\ssv.dll

O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {B205A35E-1FC4-4CE3-818B-899DBBB3388C} -

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Encarta Search

Bar\ENCSBAR.DLL

O9 - Extra button: Connection Help -

{E2D4D26B-0180-43a4-B05F-462D6D54C789} -

C:\WINDOWS\PCHEALTH\HELPCTR\Vendors\CN=Hewlett-Packard,L=Cupertino,S=Ca,C=US\IEButton\support.htm

O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Connection Help -

{E2D4D26B-0180-43a4-B05F-462D6D54C789} -

C:\WINDOWS\PCHEALTH\HELPCTR\Vendors\CN=Hewlett-Packard,L=Cupertino,S=Ca,C=US\IEButton\support.htm

O9 - Extra button: Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} -

C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe (file missing)

O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Windows Messenger -

{FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program

Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe (file missing)

O11 - Options group: [iNTERNATIONAL] International*

O15 - Trusted Zone: http://toolbar.imageshack.us

O16 - DPF: {04E7BADF-F3B9-420D-B82D-8D8CADEFE4F9} (CyImage2Ctl Class) -

http://cyimg5.cyworld.nate.com/ImageUpload/CyImageUpload2.cab

O16 - DPF: {10B69FAD-B2F1-4DB0-BBEC-81DCC529F957} (BTWWebClient Control) -

http://download.banktown.com/kbstarActiveX/BTW-sToolkit.cab

O16 - DPF: {155571EC-5A3C-4E5F-A00D-DC243A83023B} (FDiImgUpload Control ?R?�$B!H�(B?g???[??)

- https://www.fdinet.fujifilm.co.jp/fdinet/activex/FDiImgUpload.cab

O16 - DPF: {2029F1D2-90E4-49EF-9824-F666D238BFF6} (NHNComicViewer Class) -

http://jr.naver.com/comic/book/viewer/NHNComicViewer.cab

O16 - DPF: {24A04430-81DA-467A-BE87-774DFAECBBF6} (UlalaPhoto Control) -

http://cyimg8.cyworld.nate.com/storyRoom/CyImageResizeCtl.cab

O16 - DPF: {4F1E5B1A-2A80-42CA-8532-2D05CB959537} (MSN Photo Upload Tool) -

http://by129fd.bay129.hotmail.msn.com/resources/MsnPUpld.cab

O16 - DPF: {6932D140-ABC4-4073-A44C-D4A541665E35} (ImageShack Toolbar) -

http://toolbar.imageshack.us/toolbar/ImageShackToolbar.cab

O16 - DPF: {6A2E758A-028B-46BB-A11D-0608AB5A4ED3} (DaumBGMCtrl Class) -

http://listen.daum.net/52st/bgmplayer/Daum52stBGMPlayer.cab

O16 - DPF: {6F06A005-C6F0-4913-A480-BCBC51D5E10B} (AxUOU Class) -

http://uwin.ulsan.ac.kr/Portal/DownLoad/AxUOU(2.0.0.4).cab

O16 - DPF: {6FE760D3-7851-4879-8838-62D9881D7177} (IniMasHandler Class) -

http://emailimg.sktelecom.com/inimas/autocontroll/IniMasPlugin.cab

O16 - DPF: {7E9FDB80-5316-11D4-B02C-00C04F0CD404} (XecureWeb 4.0 Client

Control) - http://img.kbstar.com/xecure/xw_install_v7050.cab

O16 - DPF: {916465E2-F906-4A14-9A91-261BA17CA6A1} (Actstop Control) -

http://stop.co.kr/program/install/actstop.cab

O16 - DPF: {938527D1-CDB7-4147-998A-B20FCA5CC976} (Cdmcco Class) -

http://cafeimg.hanmail.net/cab9_1/dmcc2.cab?Version=1,0,0,10

O16 - DPF: {9CDD57AC-CA86-464C-B920-3228A388CC78} (NaverFileControl

Control) - http://file.naver.com/down/NaverFile.cab

O16 - DPF: {A00B2A53-60D9-4477-ADA3-60490770C5E0} (Hanmail Upload Control) -

http://mail.daum.net/hanmail-ax/hanmail.cab

O16 - DPF: {A977FF0C-8757-4E76-8533-482F91946233} (Neowiz Login Control) -

http://dl.sayclub.com/sayclub/sayctl/sayax.cab

O16 - DPF: {B45E969D-924F-4C83-ACF3-38CDD115AA2C} (MpiPlugin Class) -

http://www.hmall.com/ilkActx/ilkactx.cab

O16 - DPF: {CFCB7308-782F-11D4-BE27-000102598CE4} (NPX Control) -

http://update.nprotect.net/nprotect/module/npx.cab

O16 - DPF: {D885750C-6002-460E-A162-713400FB1FD4} (CActiveXFileCtrl

Control) - http://www.goalibaba.com/setup/CActiveXFileCtrl.cab

O16 - DPF: {E831AA9C-C980-4F16-B252-09AAF40D0E9B} (Kdfense9 Control) -

http://kings.cachenet.com/kdfx218/kbstar/kdfense9.cab

O16 - DPF: {F1F07506-6CB4-44AC-8615-66D1234EFD05} (WebCtl Class) -

http://www.hmall.com/initech/plugin/INISafeWeb50.cab

O16 - DPF: {FDC8D26C-8772-4877-8FD3-86D552F0B43C} (SearchWIObj Class) -

http://file.searchspy.co.kr/control/SearchPackWebInstaller.cab

O18 - Protocol: livecall - {828030A1-22C1-4009-854F-8E305202313F} -

C:\PROGRA~1\MSNMES~1\MSGRAP~1.DLL

O18 - Protocol: msnim - {828030A1-22C1-4009-854F-8E305202313F} -

C:\PROGRA~1\MSNMES~1\MSGRAP~1.DLL

O20 - AppInit_DLLs: C:\PROGRA~1\Google\GOOGLE~2\GOEC62~1.DLL

O20 - Winlogon Notify: WgaLogon - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\WgaLogon.dll

O21 - SSODL: WPDShServiceObj - {AAA288BA-9A4C-45B0-95D7-94D524869DB5} -

C:\WINDOWS\system32\WPDShServiceObj.dll

O23 - Service: Ati HotKey Poller - ATI Technologies Inc. -

C:\WINDOWS\system32\Ati2evxx.exe

O23 - Service: ATI Smart - Unknown owner - C:\WINDOWS\system32\ati2sgag.exe

O23 - Service: AVG7 Alert Manager Server (Avg7Alrt) - GRISOFT, s.r.o. -

C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVGFRE~1\avgamsvr.exe

O23 - Service: AVG7 Update Service (Avg7UpdSvc) - GRISOFT, s.r.o. -

C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVGFRE~1\avgupsvc.exe

O23 - Service: AVG E-mail Scanner (AVGEMS) - GRISOFT, s.r.o. -

C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVGFRE~1\avgemc.exe

O23 - Service: GoogleDesktopManager - Google - C:\Program

Files\Google\Google Desktop Search\GoogleDesktop.exe

O23 - Service: Google Updater Service (gusvc) - Google - C:\Program

Files\Google\Common\Google Updater\GoogleUpdaterService.exe

O23 - Service: InstallDriver Table Manager (IDriverT) - Macrovision

Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\InstallShield\Driver\1050\Intel

32\IDriverT.exe

O23 - Service: iPod Service (iPodService) - Apple Computer, Inc. -

C:\Program Files\iPod\bin\iPodService.exe

O23 - Service: STI Simulator - Unknown owner -

C:\WINDOWS\System32\PAStiSvc.exe

O23 - Service: TrueVector Internet Monitor (vsmon) - Zone Labs, LLC -

C:\WINDOWS\system32\ZoneLabs\vsmon.exe


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