Adware!!!

[bob_111]

Ok guys, ever since my little bro has been using my computer it seems that he has somehow got adware on it! I don't know how this is possible!!! Ice tryed clearing my my cache (rm -rf ~/.mozilla) and that didn't get rid of it. Just wanted to know how to delete this studd cause im getting constant brower hijacking. Im using firefox btw. Thanks alot.


- bob_111

[dev-urandom]

Not actually a good suggestion, but will definitely get rid of the adware or whatever got into ur system:

[robdd]

One way to give your browser a good clean-out it is to unmerge then re-emerge it again. That *should* get you back to a clean installation, provided nothing else nasty has happened.

So try 'emerge -C firefox' (or firefox-bin if you've got the binary install) which should delete all the binaries and assocaited cache directories (I hope !!).

Then emerge firefox again - it should just go to the package in /usr/portage/distfiles so you won't have to download again (unless you want to get the latest version, in which case do an emerge sync first).

And yeah, if you know which site is doing it let us know. I'd be interested to see how it's attacking Linux/Firefox. Obviously higher class slime than the ones who attack Windoze boxes !
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Rob Diamond
Gentoo Hack, hack, hacker
Sydney, Australia

[sarahtf]

Are you sure its adware? I had a problem with Firefox awhile back displaying an adpage instead of my homepage on startup. Turned out that I had left the %u option off the start command in the launcher.
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Sarah Fish

[magic919]

And sometimes this is a DNS thing. ISP routes unknown domains to a generic search page looking like adware.

[joaander]

Or you could have done what this guy did: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-360966-highlight-somedomain+com.html and set somedomain.com in your domain search path.

Some more information or screenshots would certainly be helpful in identifying the problem.