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Re: [Full-disclosure] Facebook seems to think my Arch Linux box has malware on it
- To: Gage Bystrom <themadichib0d@xxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Facebook seems to think my Arch Linux box has malware on it
- From: xD 0x41 <secn3t@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:17:29 +1100
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On 21 January 2012 08:29, Gage Bystrom <themadichib0d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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