Tabs open automatically with malware sites

oldyellr · Post by **oldyellr** » August 7th, 2018, 8:30 pm

@The Visitor
After clearing the cache and all cookies, I never had a malicious tab open all day that had to be blocked. It was that simple. Thanks for the tip.

TheVisitor · Post by **TheVisitor** » August 8th, 2018, 1:57 am

oldyellr wrote:@The Visitor
After clearing the cache and all cookies, I never had a malicious tab open all day that had to be blocked. It was that simple. Thanks for the tip.

Your welcome..

therube · Post by **therube** » August 8th, 2018, 9:04 am

(cache and all cookies. While it can't hurt in doing that, I've got doubts that that has put an end to the issue?)

oldyellr · Post by **oldyellr** » August 8th, 2018, 9:40 am

therube wrote:(cache and all cookies. While it can't hurt in doing that, I've got doubts that that has put an end to the issue?)

Well, it's worked for the second day I did that. No more spontaneous tabs opening. MSE and Malwarebytes say my computer is clean, so that's not where it was coming from. I can only conclude that cookies were planted in my browser by malicious site that were opening those tabs. Only a slight inconvenience having to sign into sites again for the first time that automatically logged me in.

jscher2000 · Post by **jscher2000** » August 11th, 2018, 6:01 pm

Hopefully by now you disabled or removed BlockSite, if that's the one you were using: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/commen ... dangerous/

oldyellr · Post by **oldyellr** » August 11th, 2018, 7:51 pm

I don't believe the add-on mentioned there is the same one I have. This is what I have
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... ck-site-2/
It isn't doing any harm and bl=ocked the sites I wanted it to and I haven't had any malicious tabs pop up ever since I deleted cache and cookies.

therube · Post by **therube** » August 12th, 2018, 3:35 am

So not only has AMO been gutted, they are so wanting to have anything there, that is what they accept, anything, including malware.
So not only has AMO spurned all the legitimate extension developers, they are so wanting to have anyone create anything, that is what they accept, everyone, including big.spy.on.you.com.

Take "Allen", an "education".
Here he is, a dozen or so extensions. His "websites", each using the same limited one page template, & that's it.

Why?

Given these times, given what is now "allowed", given what can be "gotten", is "Allen" Allen, or is he only a stooge for big.spy.on.you.com?

Maybe that is not the case, maybe he is simply a guy who in order to "education" has come up with these extensions for his own use, & thought he'd share them with the world.

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Isn't it wonderful that you cannot have any sort of trust in the majority of the extensions that one might install these days.
Isn't it wonderful that even your browser maker does dubious things for your benefit.

oldyellr · Post by **oldyellr** » August 12th, 2018, 10:38 am

Well, since it isn't doing anything for me anymore, I'll just disable the add-on.

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