Firefox Rape: Winfix

**Alexander the Pretty Good** · 09-28-2005, 00:13

Naturally, 10 minutes after I post that, it comes back.

**Kekvit Irae** · 09-28-2005, 00:25

I got it too, and I'm running IE. The only reason why I allow popups on this site is because of the stupid PM system.

**Papewaio** · 09-28-2005, 02:36

You can allow individual popups, or just login to the private message area...

**Kaiser of Arabia** · 09-28-2005, 03:07

I don't allow popups, but I still get this. I dunno where to get mozilla proper, i heard you have to pay for it, which I am NOT going to do.

I just beat back the attacks for now. I had to stay off the org for maybe 10 minutes. That seems to delay it a bit.

I'm having my friend look into hacking their site. Seriously. They must die!

FOR THE FATHERCOMPTUER!

**AggonyKing** · 09-28-2005, 03:17

Gah, it really bugs, I can't be 10 seconds with out it coming out

here's a pic

it acts just as if was part of firefox

**Alexander the Pretty Good** · 09-28-2005, 03:51

Kaiser, that's illegal.

Bust some kneecaps instead.

And Mozilla is completely free, and is more powerful, and has more stuff.

I just uninstalled firefox to get Mozilla. Problem (at least temporarily) solved.

I still want to axe-murder Winfixer, though. If I find that SOB...

**Ghost of Rom** · 09-28-2005, 04:34

Handy tip:
If you get a popup and dont want to click anywhere on it to close it:
alt-f4 will close the active window. Or task manager can kill the application/process.

**Productivity** · 09-28-2005, 04:41

Originally Posted by edyzmedieval

I told you last week about this.

You didn't pay attention to my warning.

No you didn't. You gave a vague offering that you get spyware, with no further information offered. If you wanted people to take you seriously the first time maybe you should have tried to be helpful instead of coming back and trying to look smug.

**Mouzafphaerre** · 09-28-2005, 11:17

Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit

So mozilla is different from Firefox? How?

Oh, I got this little bugger of a pop up and ad-aware'd and hijack-this'd it into oblivion. For now, at least.

Crazed Rabbit

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The engine is the same; for the rest they are different animals. I use Mo as my main browser and FF for some extra browsing...you know.

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**Mouzafphaerre** · 09-28-2005, 11:19

Originally Posted by Kaiser of Arabia

I don't allow popups, but I still get this. I dunno where to get mozilla proper, i heard you have to pay for it, which I am NOT going to do.

I just beat back the attacks for now. I had to stay off the org for maybe 10 minutes. That seems to delay it a bit.

I'm having my friend look into hacking their site. Seriously. They must die!

FOR THE FATHERCOMPTUER!

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Kaiser, you get Mozilla Suite right from Mozilla.org and it's completely free.
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**kayapó** · 09-28-2005, 14:54

Winfixer is malware. Do a google search to find the Winfixer removal. It is quite annoying as it keeps coming back if you try to remove by hand.

It is not a normal popup and it has nothing to do with Firefox.

Originally Posted by Simetrical

I've been doing some Googling, and it looks like this Winfixer thing is a nasty piece of work. Definitely adware, and from what I can see it's unusually hard to remove. It's also apparently been tarnishing the good name of the unrelated spyware-removal program Winfix.
This site contains detailed instructions for removal.

**Xiahou** · 09-28-2005, 19:17

I got it last night too. I assumed it was a particularly shameful popup advertisement, since it only happened on this site- like that 'fastclick' garbage or whatever it is....

For a temporary fix, I pinged their website to get it's IP and then did a ROUTE ADD command, directing traffic to a non-existant IP. It seemed to work.