Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:30:01 -0800 From: Joseph Vella <satyam@sklinks.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I've got spyware!!?? Message-ID: <200602230930.02147.satyam@sklinks.com> In-Reply-To: <20060223154314.59206.qmail@web32813.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060223154314.59206.qmail@web32813.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On Thursday 23 February 2006 07:43, Dave McCammon wrote: > --- Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > On Feb 23, 2006, at 12:19 AM, Joseph Vella wrote: > > > > > autoscrolling feature, when all of a sudden some > > > > ugly website pops > > > > > up. It > > > was something I clicked with the mouse wheel. I > > > > tried it again and > > > > > sure > > > enough the same site pops up. It was kind of > I think it is something in Firefox. I see the same > thing. When the middle mouse button is clicked on a > page, it goes to a seemingly random page.(Notice > seemingly) > > It looks like it can be disable by typeing > "about:config" in the address bar of firefox and > changing the middlemouse.contentloadurl to false. > > Also, google "middlemouse.contentloadurl" for what it > does. It has something to do with loading clipboard > contents as URL. > Read > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216899. > There is a mention of a "Google "I'm Feeling Lucky"" > search being done, which may be what you are seeing. > > Dave > That was it. When select and copy text then click on the mousewheel inside Firefox, a random page pops up. When I delete the contents of the clipboard, click on the mouse then wheel nothing happens. It was strange when I didn't know what was going on.
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