I'm having the same problems. Firefox won't load a page worth a damn and I can't even access the menus across the top (File, Edit, etc).
I've uninstalled the extension, deleted the chrome tags (as per above) and when that didn't work, I uninstalled Firefox, deleted the remaining directory structure for it, reinstalled it and rebooted and STILL the problem persists.
Anyone else seeing this? Got any solutions? I've come to love my Firefox and the past day or so being stuck back on IE is driving me nuts!
Actually, most spam these days is relayed through worm-created open proxies. Open Relays have their part too, but are far less numerous and thus far less often the source of the spam.
Stop spam, apply your patches and remind others to do the same.
We originally downed the interface (killing the connection) when the traffic was detected, but it caused such a ruckus in terms of pissed-off customers that we had to modify the policy. Having a clean network is nice, but not if it means having no customers;) Now when we detect the traffic, we filter the customer on the top-ten most-abused ports (besides 80 and 53) and give them two days to resolve the problem, or we block all traffic from that IP.
Scanning for traffic for worm-infected customers is one of the things I do at the ISP I work at, and I can tell you, it is often NOT as simple as telling them to clean it up.
Half the time, the customer doesn't believe us, as if we'd bother to make something like this up, just to annoy them.
When they actually do look, much of the time, they claim to find nothing, or to have "fixed it", but we still see the worm traffic. And of course there are those wonderful customers who shut the infected machine down for the day, claim to have "fixed it" and then turn it back on again the next day...
And, to top it off, one out of every three of the ones that actually DO resolve it end up getting reinfected days later, because they didn't bother to do all the patches after removing the infection (despite explicit suggestions to do just that on our part).
It's a fun job, let me tell ya...
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I'm having the same problems. Firefox won't load a page worth a damn and I can't even access the menus across the top (File, Edit, etc). I've uninstalled the extension, deleted the chrome tags (as per above) and when that didn't work, I uninstalled Firefox, deleted the remaining directory structure for it, reinstalled it and rebooted and STILL the problem persists. Anyone else seeing this? Got any solutions? I've come to love my Firefox and the past day or so being stuck back on IE is driving me nuts!
Actually, most spam these days is relayed through worm-created open proxies. Open Relays have their part too, but are far less numerous and thus far less often the source of the spam. Stop spam, apply your patches and remind others to do the same.
We originally downed the interface (killing the connection) when the traffic was detected, but it caused such a ruckus in terms of pissed-off customers that we had to modify the policy. Having a clean network is nice, but not if it means having no customers ;) Now when we detect the traffic, we filter the customer on the top-ten most-abused ports (besides 80 and 53) and give them two days to resolve the problem, or we block all traffic from that IP.
Scanning for traffic for worm-infected customers is one of the things I do at the ISP I work at, and I can tell you, it is often NOT as simple as telling them to clean it up. Half the time, the customer doesn't believe us, as if we'd bother to make something like this up, just to annoy them. When they actually do look, much of the time, they claim to find nothing, or to have "fixed it", but we still see the worm traffic. And of course there are those wonderful customers who shut the infected machine down for the day, claim to have "fixed it" and then turn it back on again the next day... And, to top it off, one out of every three of the ones that actually DO resolve it end up getting reinfected days later, because they didn't bother to do all the patches after removing the infection (despite explicit suggestions to do just that on our part). It's a fun job, let me tell ya...