[OFB Cafe] Potential Spyware Site

[saki]

Donald R Spoon wrote:
> My wife was doing a web search on fire ant bites this evening and all of 
> a sudden her web-browser was Hijacked.  

 >snip

> (snip)
> 
> I tried my usual tricks, but couldn't break the loop either.  I finally 
> exited Mozilla altogether, (snip)

Don,

I had similar problems with "pop-ups" recently (running Ice Weasel in 
Debian Etch).

I resolved mine by opening "top" and killing Java.

I'm not aware of anything else that would run as you describe.

Anyone else?


Terence