Hi Colin,
Thanks for the suggestion.
I gave ownership of the .cache directory to Root and this has resolved
the issue so far.
I had some earlier success with removing all Firefox extensions, but
this only worked for awhile.
In the end I completely removed firefox from the system and deleted all
related files and profiles
and then reinstalled it.
Then I did a chown of the cache directory giving ownership to Root so
Firefox cannot write any files to .cache.
It has not had any discernable effect on Firefox performance and so far
so good; no more evidence of the txt.downloader malware.
I have been checking the scans regularly to see if the malware tries to
write to any other directories but its all good to date.
Does anybody have any idea of what this Malware does and how it is acquired?
Thanks
Wally
On 10/24/22 09:20, colin course wrote:
hi wally they say you can get rid of anything in a cache without
to many problems or after effects
one way to stop it comming into the cache making it read only
but this will stop other files entering as well
but maybe have a look at the permissions of the cache at least
now though this is uncomfortable task i must try to get the information out
,humanity's survivel depends on circulation of information
take these two words and join them then search on favourite web Engin
32 0r 64 B?? operating system
shall i throw this rubbish down the rubbish C????
kind regards colin
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