Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-10-06 Thread Roger Heflin
keep a second firefox window open, alt-tab to it run about:performance and it will list out all of your tabs and you can X a specific tab. Try about:performance I have to use it a lot to figure out which tab lost its mind and is slowing everything down because it decided it needs gb's of ram. On

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-10-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 6 Oct 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: I am surprised that alt-tab does not switch to another app for you. I If it happens again, I'll try it. I'd forgotten all about it. Do not rmember the last time I used it. have used that to switch out of full screen applications and I would not

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-10-06 Thread Roger Heflin
I am surprised that alt-tab does not switch to another app for you. I have used that to switch out of full screen applications and I would not expect firefox/malware to have any way to make the window be able to truly take over the screen. In firefox about:config there are some options that

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-10-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 6 Oct 2023, Mike Wright wrote: What would happen if you disconnected from the network just long enough to change the settings on the browser to NOT open new pages in a tab but instead to do it the old-fashioned way: open new pages in their own window. You might be able to X the

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-10-06 Thread Mike Wright
On 10/6/23 07:58, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Thu, 5 Oct 2023, Joe Zeff wrote: On 10/05/2023 09:15 PM, Tim via users wrote: It's a pity there isn't a hotkey for killing just the frontmost/topmost program.  ALT+F4 will close the top/front window, if they're obeying control, but I mean instantly

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-10-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 5 Oct 2023, Joe Zeff wrote: On 10/05/2023 09:15 PM, Tim via users wrote: It's a pity there isn't a hotkey for killing just the frontmost/topmost program. ALT+F4 will close the top/front window, if they're obeying control, but I mean instantly killing the topmost window despite what it

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-10-06 Thread Roger Heflin
Technically it does, you just have to figure out what the os process is and kill it, each tab is a separate os process.I have killed weather channel with kill -9 many times(it is easy to find it as it leaks ram and is the only multiple-gb firefox thread). If you have a 2nd firefox window open

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-10-05 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/05/2023 09:15 PM, Tim via users wrote: It's a pity there isn't a hotkey for killing just the frontmost/topmost program. ALT+F4 will close the top/front window, if they're obeying control, but I mean instantly killing the topmost window despite what it wants. There's a force quit taskbar

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-10-05 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2023-10-05 at 21:05 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > I can switch to another virtual console, > but do not know how to kill just one tab. > I can got out of it by disconnecting the ethernet cable, > but would rather disconnect with the GUI. I always set up the kill the X server hotkey

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-10-05 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/05/2023 08:05 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: I can switch to another virtual console, but do not know how to kill just one tab. I can got out of it by disconnecting the ethernet cable, but would rather disconnect with the GUI. I don't think that you can kill one tab or one window, but

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-10-05 Thread Joe Wulf via users
FF doesn't provide the fidelity to kill 'just one tab'. On Thursday, October 5, 2023 at 10:06:30 PM EDT, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Thu, 5 Oct 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: > On Thu, Oct 5, 2023 at 1:11?PM Michael Hennebry > wrote: >> >> On Sat, 30 Sep 2023, George N. White III wrote:

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-10-05 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 5 Oct 2023, Roger Heflin wrote: On Thu, Oct 5, 2023 at 1:11?PM Michael Hennebry wrote: On Sat, 30 Sep 2023, George N. White III wrote: On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 11:19?AM Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: This is trying to cure the disease by eliminating a

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-10-05 Thread Roger Heflin
On Thu, Oct 5, 2023 at 1:11 PM Michael Hennebry wrote: > > On Sat, 30 Sep 2023, George N. White III wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 11:19?AM Michael Hennebry < > > henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > > > This is trying to cure the disease by eliminating a symptom. You don't > > know

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-10-05 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/05/2023 12:10 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: Going fullscreen is part if what makes it hard to even try to make it go away. It sounds like you may need an indirect approach. Can you get to a different virtual console? If so, you may be able to find and kill the malware using top. If

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-10-05 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 30 Sep 2023, George N. White III wrote: On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 11:19?AM Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: This is trying to cure the disease by eliminating a symptom. You don't know what is happening behind that full screen. Going fullscreen is part if

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-10-01 Thread stan via users
On Sat, 30 Sep 2023 09:18:59 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Wed, 27 Sep 2023, stan via users wrote: > > > On Tue, 26 Sep 2023 12:06:46 -0500 (CDT) > > I think it is done by running javascript through your version of > > firefox. Do you have noscript add-on installed? That will block

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-10-01 Thread stan via users
On Sat, 30 Sep 2023 09:18:59 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: > Noscript was already installed nand active. > It did not complain. > > I'm not clear on what this means. > The url window showed .cloudfront.net . > > I already had noscript installed and it did not complain. > Then you have

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-09-30 Thread George N. White III
On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 11:19 AM Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > On Wed, 27 Sep 2023, stan via users wrote: > > > On Tue, 26 Sep 2023 12:06:46 -0500 (CDT) > > I think it is done by running javascript through your version of > > firefox. Do you have noscript add-on

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-09-30 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 27 Sep 2023, stan via users wrote: On Tue, 26 Sep 2023 12:06:46 -0500 (CDT) I think it is done by running javascript through your version of firefox. Do you have noscript add-on installed? That will block any Noscript was already installed nand active. It did not complain.

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-09-27 Thread stan via users
On Tue, 26 Sep 2023 12:06:46 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: > I stumbled onto a very bad website: > d1ykbfcai6wsme dot cloudfront dot net slash werrx01 slash > phone=+1 dash 888 dash 387 dash 3976

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-09-26 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 26 Sep 2023, Michael Hennebry wrote: I the meantime, how do I blacklist those addresses? Oops. In the meantime, how do I blacklist those addresses? -- Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Occasionally irrational explanations are required" -- Luke Roman

Re: How do I stop this malware

2023-09-26 Thread Barry
> On 26 Sep 2023, at 18:07, Michael Hennebry > wrote: > > How is that sort of thing done and > how do I keep it from happening again? There are products that will help protect you. take more care about the links you click on is good advice. > > I the meantime, how do I blacklist those

How do I stop this malware

2023-09-26 Thread Michael Hennebry
I stumbled onto a very bad website: d1ykbfcai6wsme dot cloudfront dot net slash werrx01 slash phone=+1 dash 888 dash 387 dash 3976