Re: [Full-disclosure] Facebook seems to think my Arch Linux box has malware on it

[Gage Bystrom <themadichib0d@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah good luck with reproducing it cause it REALLY sounds like a mitm or a
phishing attack trying to get people to download fake av. I would do a dns
lookup and then compare those results to that of a public web service, and
save the links for the AVs to check if they have any malicious history
associated with them.
On Jan 20, 2012 1:21 PM, "Wesley Kerfoot" <wjak56@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It turns out that it was a problem with firefox. However, I do not believe
> I had any malicious addons or extensions for a few reasons. 1) I only had 4
> extensions, adblock plus, pentadactyl, firebug, and noscript.
> 2) they were all vetted (presumably) by mozilla.
>
> I believe, and this is simply speculation, that the problem may have been
> caused by noscript stopping/interfering with some scripts on facebook.
> Facebook would assume it was malware interfering with the site, and attempt
> to block it. I am 99% sure my browser was not really compromised.
>
> I'm going to try and reproduce it later.
>
>
> On 19 January 2012 22:57, Byron Sonne <byron.sonne@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> > “Your computer has malware!” Facebook says to me.
>>
>> I am really curious to know, assuming that everything you've said is
>> accurate, how they determine you've got malware. This is rather curious.
>>
>> The more I think about it, the more I wonder if something's come between
>> you and facebook pretending to be official, hoping to trick you into
>> downloading something.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> --
>>  freebyron.org
>>
>
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