http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/spyware-for-pornography-site-leads-to-jail-time/ Internet Safety, Windows Updates, Internet News, and More Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:29:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/spyware-for-pornography-site-leads-to-jail-time/#comment-2412 Ted Bruner Sun, 28 Aug 2005 15:13:05 +0000 /?p=1003#comment-2412 It is bad when your/my homepage is changed. Especially when it is done by a "trusted" source. Such was/is the case with me; around February this year my FireFox was "Hacked" by the good people at Mozilla. They downloaded a program/add-on called "ZoomIn" and changed my 11-tab weather opening pages. Now I can't get rid of the negative effects of Zoom-In. It hangs my machine (Acer Aspire 3000) on shutdown; it hangs it on startup; it is probably the main cause that my machine looses its sound card (code 10) forcing me to run restore to the nearest set point to get it back; it reversed the chroma on another machine whenever I tried to view anything, whether it was MediaPlayer, or DVD programs - I had to "restore" it as well. I learned my lesson and removed my third machine from the InterNet before firing up FireFox on it and disabled the auto-updating, but it was too late for the other two machines. It appears I may be compelled to re-OS both systems just to get rid of this horribla menace. I still use FireFox, but do not appreciate their whacking/hacking attitude. If you do not like the BlueSpammers, perhaps you can find out how many others have been victimized by the FireFox hammer(s). At least FF can be disabled manually, but I still suffer consistant problems before discovering that they planned to take over my whole system by offering me a "free" service. It is bad when your/my homepage is changed. Especially when it is done by a “trusted” source. Such was/is the case with me; around February this year my FireFox was “Hacked” by the good people at Mozilla. They downloaded a program/add-on called “ZoomIn” and changed my 11-tab weather opening pages. Now I can’t get rid of the negative effects of Zoom-In. It hangs my machine (Acer Aspire 3000) on shutdown; it hangs it on startup; it is probably the main cause that my machine looses its sound card (code 10) forcing me to run restore to the nearest set point to get it back; it reversed the chroma on another machine whenever I tried to view anything, whether it was MediaPlayer, or DVD programs - I had to “restore” it as well.
I learned my lesson and removed my third machine from the InterNet before firing up FireFox on it and disabled the auto-updating, but it was too late for the other two machines.
It appears I may be compelled to re-OS both systems just to get rid of this horribla menace. I still use FireFox, but do not appreciate their whacking/hacking attitude. If you do not like the BlueSpammers, perhaps you can find out how many others have been victimized by the FireFox hammer(s). At least FF can be disabled manually, but I still suffer consistant problems before discovering that they planned to take over my whole system by offering me a “free” service.

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