Soldato
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- 10 May 2004
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In roughly 1 out of 30 searches, the picture result hijacks my browser to a rogue antivirus page.
▼ Searching for Easter-related pics:
▼ Viewing the desired pic:
▼ After a few seconds, image result is hijacked as follows:
▼ When closing the tab, commence aggressive script:
This happens on a new installation of Firefox 4.0. I have the Adblock add-on, realtime AV protection, realtime teatimer running from Spybot S&D and a modified HOSTS file. I don't go looking for pr0n sites or pirate software and I certainly don't do those cursors, smilies or Incredimail crap which are known to attract problems. Nothing have shown up on my hard disk from manual malware scans either. Could this be that a rogue domain have hijacked the image result and is doing it to a few of my other image results? A bit alarming though to be affecting 1 in 30-ish.
Excuse large font on the pictures and black background. I'm visually impaired. Thanks.
▼ Searching for Easter-related pics:
▼ Viewing the desired pic:
▼ After a few seconds, image result is hijacked as follows:
▼ When closing the tab, commence aggressive script:
This happens on a new installation of Firefox 4.0. I have the Adblock add-on, realtime AV protection, realtime teatimer running from Spybot S&D and a modified HOSTS file. I don't go looking for pr0n sites or pirate software and I certainly don't do those cursors, smilies or Incredimail crap which are known to attract problems. Nothing have shown up on my hard disk from manual malware scans either. Could this be that a rogue domain have hijacked the image result and is doing it to a few of my other image results? A bit alarming though to be affecting 1 in 30-ish.
Excuse large font on the pictures and black background. I'm visually impaired. Thanks.
