OT - Web browsing issue

[Michael Butash]

Haha, do like I did, force my wife to eat linux for her main
workstation.  Past a few weeks of trepidation and being pissy, she's now
quite thankful.  

Rehab for windoze users, it's for their own good to perform
intervention.  :)

-mb


On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 17:18 -0700, Bob Elzer wrote:
> Might have to do an upgrade to wife 1.2 :-)
>  
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>         From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>         [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On
>         Behalf Of Eric Cope
>         Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 4:15 PM
>         To: michael at butash.net; Main PLUG discussion list
>         Subject: Re: OT - Web browsing issue
>         
>         
>         
>         I recently wiped it due to a similar issue. But my wife visits
>         the same sites...
>         
>         On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Michael Butash
>         <michael at butash.net> wrote:
>                 How often do you actually ask windows-only people for
>                 anything helpful
>                 even for windoze?  :)
>                 
>                 Sounds like something is manipulating your outbound
>                 traffic, try
>                 malwarebytes, or a format.  I don't trust any windoze
>                 install once it's
>                 been compromised, and only slightly more even fully
>                 patched.  I had a
>                 friends new windoze install get owned in less than day
>                 of them ignoring
>                 my warning of using firefox w/noscript, and got the
>                 same kind of
>                 behavior hijacking url's like that.  Even when cleaned
>                 with
>                 malwarebytes, something still persisted that it
>                 couldn't find, so they
>                 just wiped it again.  Hopefully it wasn't one of those
>                 mbr-resident
>                 stealth ones thanks to sony...
>                 
>                 -mb
>                 
>                 
>                 >
>                 > why are we asking windows questions on Linux list?
>                 >
>                 > Craig
>                 >
>                 >
>                 
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