[FRIAM] bizarre Fire Fox behavior?

[Gillian Densmore]

PURELY FWIW this is where javaScript's (lack of) sandbox is a disaster.
Their's a billion assholes out their that get off on this. I don't know why.
Chrome you MIGHT beable to kil the window spamming you.

lol  more than happily find a urle reidrect page and send back those turd
blossoms the same assholery.

FireFox does (or used to) do a decent job of sorrty waht plugins are
bullshit vis not. FFQuantum is pretty good at blocking out that kind of
jackass bullshit.

And yeah fiy ou don't care about the windows up just crash firefox (windows
has a task manager for this)  I have no idea what the equivilant for MacOS
is now.

On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 8:01 AM, Roger Critchlow <rec at elf.org> wrote:

> There's some kind of exploit running around that tries to freeze your
> browser by repeated file saves while posting a "You have been PWNED! Call
> 1-800-xxx-yyyy for help!" message, then they talk you out of your credit
> card number, and so on, and so forth.  Affects several browsers, there were
> earlier fixes but they're broken at the moment.  It sounds like your
> computer is too old for the exploit to work correctly.
>
> The immediate cure is to delete the window/tab that is running the
> exploit, if you can identify it.  When you start firefox is it loading a
> collection of saved tabs?
>
> -- rec --
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> On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 11:53 PM Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
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>> After a time, when Firefox has been running, Windows Explorer begins
>> spawning new windows explorer processes (as indicated by the Windows Task
>> Manager) at a frantic rate, roughly two per second.  They are all a little
>> over 2k but not exactly the same.    When I close Firefox it does not stop,
>> but if I don’t open Firefox, it does not start.  It does not happen with
>> Windows Internet Explorer.  Those are the only two browsers I have.
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>> Has anybody experienced anything like this?  Eventually it uses up
>> enormous amounts of memory on the machine and I suppose will ultimately
>> crash it.
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>> Nicholas S. Thompson
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>> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>>
>> Clark University
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>> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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