Avast - are we protected?

[bob3160]

Seems to me that what we have here is some one trying to make newqs rather than simply reporting news.

Seem to go on all the time now. 

[FreewheelinFrank]

Bob, you're a right hypocrite the way you stick your oar in, then pretend to be above it all.

 

[bob3160]

Peace Frank, It's the Christmas seaasn.

[alanrf]

And as Tiny Tim said "God bless us - everyone".

[FreewheelinFrank]

As noted previously, the following or similar message does not necessarily mean a user has the spyware add-on:

I too updated. to the new Firefox and I noticed a box popped up and it said that a new add-on had been installed.

This can just mean a previously disabled add-on has been re-enabled after an update.

Here's a useful tip from MozillaZine to check if Firefox really is hijacked:

If you want to see if you have the exact thing that I had, go to google.com and search for anything. Right click the first result and click "Copy", then "Paste" it into Notepad. You do not have this if it says:

http://www.the-site-you-expected.com

However, you have a problem if it's something like:

http //123.goored.com/url=http://www.some-other-site.com

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=948945&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=45