<div dir="ltr">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.<div>Chrome you MIGHT beable to kil the window spamming you.</div><div><br></div><div>lol more than happily find a urle reidrect page and send back those turd blossoms the same assholery.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 8:01 AM, Roger Critchlow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rec@elf.org" target="_blank">rec@elf.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><div><div><br></div><div>-- rec --</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 11:53 PM Nick Thompson <<a href="mailto:nickthompson@earthlink.net" target="_blank">nickthompson@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_5499741306176743123m_5575683040060754936WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">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. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Has anybody experienced anything like this? Eventually it uses up enormous amounts of memory on the machine and I suppose will ultimately crash it. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">N<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Nicholas S. Thompson<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Clark University<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/" target="_blank">http://home.earthlink.net/~<wbr>nickthompson/naturaldesigns/</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div>==============================<wbr>==============================<br>
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