malware popup in firefox

[adamogardner]

It said I was infected and although I clicked 'cancel' a webpage I had opened turned into a simulation of a virus scan of windows c: D: drives. Well, I'm not using windows so I closed the tab, and a new popup asked If I wanted to download their product. This popup occurred last week too. Is my machine diseased? How can I locate the source of the dis-ease? Then how do I remove it? Also is there a way to find out whence it came from so that I may dole out some vigilante justice?

[Celauran]

Sounds like Antimalware 2009 or whatever it's called. The site's a hoax. The fact that it 'scans' C:\ on a Linux machine should tip you off. Just ignore it.

[cobaltseeker]

I wonder, do you have wine installed?
On a windows machine these cursed malware-sites latch onto your windows folder, i wonder if this somehow may have found your wine windows folder? You should do have a look through it maybe (i dunno, i'm new to this )

that or - are you going back to the same websites? >>

[Sidewinder1]

You can always turn off pop-ups within Firefox. I know that doesn't really answer your questions; but it is a suggestion as a stop-gap measure.

[philinux]

It said I was infected and although I clicked 'cancel' a webpage I had opened turned into a simulation of a virus scan of windows c: D: drives. Well, I'm not using windows so I closed the tab, and a new popup asked If I wanted to download their product. This popup occurred last week too. Is my machine diseased? How can I locate the source of the dis-ease? Then how do I remove it? Also is there a way to find out whence it came from so that I may dole out some vigilante justice?

Your machine is fine. Just clear your private data and dont use that webpage again, it's a security hoax aimed at windows users.

[billgoldberg]

Your machine is fine. Just clear your private data and dont use that webpage again, it's a security hoax aimed at windows users.

In firefox:

cltr+shift+del clear cache and cookies

[ugm6hr]

your machine is fine. Just clear your private data and dont use that webpage again, it's a security hoax aimed at windows users.

+1

[albinootje]

I'm not using windows so I closed the tab, and a new popup asked If I wanted to download their product. This popup occurred last week too.

Use the "Web of trust" addon in Firefox to prevent yourself from visiting those [...] websites.

[binbash]

It is probably a cookie or javascript.Just clear your cookies and ignore that

[doas777]

in windows it's a pernicious bugger. not browser resident. prolly stuck in wine; usually use the malwarebytes scanner to kill it.