Mozilla warns over Firefox Trojan

[Simon]

Mozilla has warned about a critical zero-day vulnerability affecting Firefox 3.5 and Firefox 3.6 users.

"We have received reports from several security research firms that have found exploit code leveraging this vulnerability in the wild," Mozilla said on its security blog.

According to Mozilla, the problem first surfaced on the Nobel Peace Prize website. Access to that site has now been blocked, but the browser developer warned that other sites could be infected and said "users who visited an infected site could have been affected by the malware".

Read more: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/security/362266/mozilla-warns-over-firefox-trojan

[Rik]

It's time to have one machine for accessing the web, independent of all others on a network.

[DorsetBoy]

Patched in 3.6.12

[Rik]

Thanks, Dorset, I am.

[Baz]

what was the trojan name?


I had some bother yesterday and got hit with some thing some how    dont know how as its very rare for me to even get warnings.NOD kept blocking something,I got about 45 failed to send email messages ..nothing I had sent....my system slowed to a crawl and task manager was showing cpu usage as 100% 

eventually got a av scan/spyware/malware done and it found some variant of win32/ramnit virus.

I didnt even have any system restore points showing so couldnt do that.

weird

[Rik]

No-one seems to have said, Baz.

[Steve]

Ramnit.A seems pretty nasty and not easy to rid can even spread to external drives

[Rik]

I really am beginning to think of  having a net machine which I image up in Acronis and then just re-install if there's  problem. Isolate it from other machines on the network, but give it access to printers.

[DorsetBoy]

Dual boot with Linux ............. internet access via Linux and Windows for everything else.

[Rik]

That would be another way, certainly. 

[MisterW]

Or a VM using VirtualBox ( or VMWare ). Make a shapshot of the VM ( before doing anything! ) and then if needs be just restore from the snaphot.

Or even simpler, just keep a Linux Live CD and boot it up for browsing etc

[Rik]

Plenty of good ideas to chew on there. Thanks. 

[pctech]

likely to break your teeth if you chew on a CD. 

[Technical Ben]

It's time to have one machine for accessing the web, independent of all others on a network.

Or a VM machine. Windows 7 almost does this now. However, there is always the "I'll transfer that download to"... BAM Virus.

[Baz]

Ramnit.A seems pretty nasty and not easy to rid can even spread to external drives

DAMN

got hit with that somehow and cant get system running well at all.every time i plug in to router my cpu usage shoots up to 100% and slows every thing down.no malware finds or spyware but had loads of AV infiltrations. got rid of them,I think,but still having trouble .



HELP!!!!!!!!!

[Glenn]

Ramnit.A seems pretty nasty and not easy to rid can even spread to external drives

I spent 4 hours with this worm (W32/Ramnit.A!htm) today, I'm sad to say, it beat me.   The laptop is being rebuilt.

[DorsetBoy]

DAMN

got hit with that somehow and cant get system running well at all.every time i plug in to router my cpu usage shoots up to 100% and slows every thing down.no malware finds or spyware but had loads of AV infiltrations. got rid of them,I think,but still having trouble .



HELP!!!!!!!!!

http://forums.techguy.org/virus-other-malware-removal/938626-win32-ramnit-worm-hijack-log.html   Look at Combofix.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=Ramnit.A&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

[pctech]

Oh dear, seems the malware authors are becoming brighter by the day.

[DorsetBoy]

I spent 4 hours with this worm (W32/Ramnit.A!htm) today, I'm sad to say, it beat me.   The laptop is being rebuilt.

http://forums.techguy.org/virus-other-malware-removal/938626-win32-ramnit-worm-hijack-log.html       COMBOFIX is said to be what you need.

[Glenn]

Now why couldn't I find that this morning? 

[Baz]

how do I save it to my desktop if I cant get online as the computer is slow as

[pctech]

If you can get to the page, right click the link and select Save Target As.../Save Link As...., if accessing from a mobile you might have a bit of trouble.

[pctech]

Might be an idea to try booting in Safe Mode (Start PC and keep tapping F8 until you get the startup menu) select safe mode with networking and go direct to that site.

[Baz]

i got it on  a pendrive thanks and its struggling to download whatever it needs from M/Soft.


my main problem is why my cpu usage is 100%   nothing is running in background but it shoots right up as soon as i plug in to router

[Baz]

does this Combofix actually fix a problem or just give a log file