[FRIAM] bizarre Fire Fox behavior?

[Roger Critchlow]

Oops.  Sorry for that.

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On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 11:36 AM Roger Critchlow <rec at elf.org> wrote:

> Sorry, Nick, I was sweltering too hard to answer.  Been a rough week in
> Boston Harbor.  And the boat goes no where until we repair the rusted
> through exhaust pipe on the engine.  Filled our engine room with diesel
> exhaust last weekend.
>
> But life is good when it cools down a bit as it has today.
>
> We should do coffee?
>
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> On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 11:06 AM Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Roger,
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>> Thanks.  I wonder …. .  The problem does not happen in I.E., but it has
>> stopped happening in FF, now as well.  The problem did seem to survive two
>> clean opens of FF, but more recently has stopped.  To be clear, what was
>> happening  was multiple *explorer* windows being opened, but it was
>> something in FF that seemed to be opening them.  It never happened when FF
>> was closed.  This is entirely separate from the problem of firefox opening
>> several processes and grabbing a
>>
>> Gig of memory just for fun, which seems to be perhaps irremediable.
>> Perhaps it’s time give up on Firefox.
>>
>>
>>
>> Anyway, all is calm at the moment.  I assume you are out in the gulf of
>> Maine somewhere, where you should be, in a lovely chilly fog.  Here in the
>> MIB, when are on our sixth day over 90.
>>
>>
>>
>> Take care,
>>
>>
>>
>> N
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>> Nicholas S. Thompson
>>
>> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>>
>> Clark University
>>
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Roger
>> Critchlow
>> *Sent:* Thursday, July 05, 2018 10:02 AM
>> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
>> friam at redfish.com>
>> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] bizarre Fire Fox behavior?
>>
>>
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>> 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.
>>
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>> 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?
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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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>> N
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>> Nicholas S. Thompson
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>> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>>
>> Clark University
>>
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
>>
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