[SGVLUG] MS bing trojan in systems!

[Matthew Campbell]

Matti, I really hope you are wrong here; that would be too crude.

Matt

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 8:47 AM, matti <mathew_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> A friend's computer had the exact SAME issue here,
> after attempting all the usual stuff I searched
> bing from their firefox (LOL and also google ) for answers
>
> "Firefox Address Bar Goes to Bing
>
> When typing into the address bar everything goes to bing search now. I have done everything from changing keyword.url to starting in safe mode to completely uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox. Nothing works and it always goes back to a bing search whenever I type anything in."
>
> http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/693508#answer-16184
>
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> One Solution Solution Chosen by AnonymousUser:
> hijack firefox
>
> solved by uninstalling this update. kb982381
>
>
> hmmm... kb982381..(from google:)
>
> MS10-035: Cumulative security update for Internet Explorer
> Aug 12, 2010 ... Resolves vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer that could allow remote code execution if a user uses Internet Explorer to view a specially ...
> support.microsoft.com/kb/982381 - Cached
>
> hmmm... is THAT how it got into my friend's firefox????
> or was it some other irritating crappy-install-what-i-want-ware???
>
> Anyways I opted for the following solutin:
>
> Solution:
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> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Location_Bar_search
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Keyword.URL
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config
>
> the About:config file has a keyword.URL variable, which
> was set to bing!! blah!!! no normal user would ever
> have changed it.
>
> what a PITA! and I am not talking about something
> tasty from Burger Continental!
>
> best
> matti
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