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A Linux experiment gone horribly…perfect!

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The other day someone who knows I am in the computer business came to me with a very sick laptop (Gateway W340 with Intel graphics chip and Broadcom wireless). The machine was a fairly innocuous little guy that had some serious issues. I’ll list them out:

  • The operating system was Windows Vista (he did not want to shell out the money for Windows 7).
  • There was a root kit.
  • Numerous malware issues.
  • Chock full ‘o viruses.
  • Wireless was flaky (at best).
  • Machine was horribly slow (presumably because of the above).

My usual first steps are to boot into safe mode, run Combofix, run CCleaner, boot back into regular mode, run Malwarebytes, and then run the antivirus. After this was all complete the remaining symptoms were:

  • Wireless was still flaky (at best).
  • Machine was still slow.

After doing everything I (and the

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Mozilla re-patches Firefox 3.6 to fix plug-in problem

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Computerworld - For the second time in two months, Mozilla on Friday rushed out a fix for Firefox to patch a problem with a browser update issued just days before.

Mozilla shipped Firefox 3.6.8 on Friday to patch a single security problem and deal with what Mike Beltzner, director of Firefox, called “a stability problem that affected some pages with embedded plug-ins.”

The company had released Firefox 3.6.7 two days earlier.

Mozilla patched one critical security bug in the newest update, according to an advisory also published Friday. “In certain circumstances, properties in the plug-in instance’s parameter array could be freed prematurely, leaving a dangling pointer that the plug-in could execute, potentially calling into attacker-controlled memory,” the warning read.

The bug surfaced in one of the 16 patches that Mozilla applied to Firefox earlier in the week.

Details of that vulnerability,

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