full-disclosure - Re: Facebook seems to think my Arch Linux box has malware on it

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Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:17:29 +1100
From: xD 0x41 <secn3t@...il.com>
To: Gage Bystrom <themadichib0d@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Facebook seems to think my Arch Linux box has
 malware on it

+1


On 21 January 2012 08:29, Gage Bystrom <themadichib0d@...il.com> wrote:

> Yeah good luck with reproducing it cause it REALLY sounds like a mitm or a
> phishing attack trying to get people to download fake av. I would do a dns
> lookup and then compare those results to that of a public web service, and
> save the links for the AVs to check if they have any malicious history
> associated with them.
> On Jan 20, 2012 1:21 PM, "Wesley Kerfoot" <wjak56@...il.com> wrote:
>
>> It turns out that it was a problem with firefox. However, I do not
>> believe I had any malicious addons or extensions for a few reasons. 1) I
>> only had 4 extensions, adblock plus, pentadactyl, firebug, and noscript.
>> 2) they were all vetted (presumably) by mozilla.
>>
>> I believe, and this is simply speculation, that the problem may have been
>> caused by noscript stopping/interfering with some scripts on facebook.
>> Facebook would assume it was malware interfering with the site, and attempt
>> to block it. I am 99% sure my browser was not really compromised.
>>
>> I'm going to try and reproduce it later.
>>
>>
>> On 19 January 2012 22:57, Byron Sonne <byron.sonne@...il.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> > “Your computer has malware!” Facebook says to me.
>>>
>>> I am really curious to know, assuming that everything you've said is
>>> accurate, how they determine you've got malware. This is rather curious.
>>>
>>> The more I think about it, the more I wonder if something's come between
>>> you and facebook pretending to be official, hoping to trick you into
>>> downloading something.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> --
>>>  freebyron.org
>>>
>>
>>
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