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Something is scanning my system, probably spyware in Firefox.
It happens from system process.
It reads DLLS and all kinds of other crap it has no busy reading this. 192 kb/sec per file... it's quite taxing on my system and quite annoying. My best guess it's Firefox secretly scanning installed programs ?! Bye, Skybuck. |
Something is scanning my system, probably spyware in Firefox.
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It happens from system process. It reads DLLS and all kinds of other crap it has no busy reading this. 192 kb/sec per file... it's quite taxing on my system and quite annoying. My best guess it's Firefox secretly scanning installed programs ?! Bye, Skybuck. Take system offline and scan it. https://rescuedisk.s.kaspersky-labs....e/2018/krd.iso ( https://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/krd18 ) There's a danger what you're seeing is Ransomware. See if any .doc or .xls files in your data area, have a funny new file extension on the end of them. The file extension marks them as being encrypted. Eventually a red dialog will announce what the ransom amount in Bitcoins is. Hope you have backups. A guy in one of my other groups got hit by ransomware, and he was most unprepared... He double-clicked an involve from Go-Daddy, but the message was a fake and the attachment was *executable* . It took months to clean up (reinstall OSes, and so on). If it was ransomware, you'd see some process both reading and writing the disk (so it can encrypt). If it's just reading, then it might be a spyware. ******* At one time, I could recommend Adwcleaner. But it's been bought by Malwarebytes, and I don't think the original author is associated with it any more. It does things like check the user preferences .js file in Firefox, for "added lines" used to infect it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malwarebytes Malwarebytes specialty is online scanning. Whereas the above Kaspersky disc is for offline scanning. Kaspersky uses a version of the Gentoo operating system as its host, while it scans. Paul |
Something is scanning my system, probably spyware in Firefox.
On 11/21/2018 11:32 PM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
On 11/21/2018 5:48 AM, wrote: It happens from system process. It reads DLLS and all kinds of other crap it has no busy reading this. 192 kb/sec per file... it's quite taxing on my system and quite annoying. My best guess it's Firefox secretly scanning installed programs ?! Instead of trying to figure out what's happening, just clean install EVERYTHING including Window$? :) Of course, AFTER backing up all your data! -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 ¤£*ɶU! ¤£¶BÄF! ¤£½ä¿ú! ¤£´©¥æ! ¤£¥´¥æ! ¤£¥´§T! ¤£¦Û±þ! ¤£¨D¯«! ½Ð¦Ò¼{ºî´© (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
Something is scanning my system, probably spyware in Firefox.
Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
My best guess it's Firefox secretly scanning installed programs ?! Instead of trying to figure out what's happening, just clean install EVERYTHING including Window$? :) That is the LAST option, no? |
Something is scanning my system, probably spyware in Firefox.
On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 10:38:09 -0500, Bill wrote:
Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote: My best guess it's Firefox secretly scanning installed programs ?! Instead of trying to figure out what's happening, just clean install EVERYTHING including Window$? :) That is the LAST option, no? Yes. The OP needs to do more investigation, obviously being very careful. -- I am the God of Hell fire and I bring you: Brexit |
Something is scanning my system, probably spyware in Firefox.
On 11/22/2018 12:51 AM, Mark wrote:
On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 10:38:09 -0500, Bill wrote: Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote: My best guess it's Firefox secretly scanning installed programs ?! Instead of trying to figure out what's happening, just clean install EVERYTHING including Window$? :) That is the LAST option, no? Yes. The OP needs to do more investigation, obviously being very careful. And it takes time! Skip to Start and collect $200! ;) -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 ¤£*ɶU! ¤£¶BÄF! ¤£½ä¿ú! ¤£´©¥æ! ¤£¥´¥æ! ¤£¥´§T! ¤£¦Û±þ! ¤£¨D¯«! ½Ð¦Ò¼{ºî´© (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
Something is scanning my system, probably spyware in Firefox.
Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
On 11/22/2018 12:51 AM, Mark wrote: On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 10:38:09 -0500, Bill wrote: Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote: My best guess it's Firefox secretly scanning installed programs ?! Instead of trying to figure out what's happening, just clean install EVERYTHING including Window$? :) That is the LAST option, no? Yes. The OP needs to do more investigation, obviously being very careful. And it takes time! Skip to Start and collect $200! ;) But you install for any possible reason. If the sun goes behind the clouds outside, you reinstall your OS. If a black cat crosses your trail, you reinstall twice. Paul |
Something is scanning my system, probably spyware in Firefox.
On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 12:36:54 -0500, Paul
wrote: Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote: On 11/22/2018 12:51 AM, Mark wrote: On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 10:38:09 -0500, Bill wrote: Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote: My best guess it's Firefox secretly scanning installed programs ?! Instead of trying to figure out what's happening, just clean install EVERYTHING including Window$? :) That is the LAST option, no? Yes. The OP needs to do more investigation, obviously being very careful. And it takes time! Skip to Start and collect $200! ;) But you install for any possible reason. If the sun goes behind the clouds outside, you reinstall your OS. If a black cat crosses your trail, you reinstall twice. Which makes no sense, as you well know. -- I am the God of Hell fire and I bring you: Brexit |
Something is scanning my system, probably spyware in Firefox.
Mark wrote:
On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 12:36:54 -0500, Paul wrote: Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote: On 11/22/2018 12:51 AM, Mark wrote: On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 10:38:09 -0500, Bill wrote: Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote: My best guess it's Firefox secretly scanning installed programs ?! Instead of trying to figure out what's happening, just clean install EVERYTHING including Window$? :) That is the LAST option, no? Yes. The OP needs to do more investigation, obviously being very careful. And it takes time! Skip to Start and collect $200! ;) But you install for any possible reason. If the sun goes behind the clouds outside, you reinstall your OS. If a black cat crosses your trail, you reinstall twice. Which makes no sense, as you well know. I Repair Install here, as part of experiments, but I hardly ever Clean Install on a main OS. It would take too much work to whip into shape. Paul |
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