Spyware on Linux?

Discussion in 'other security issues & news' started by Pain of Salvation, Feb 25, 2006.

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  1. Pain of Salvation

    Pain of Salvation Registered Member

    Are there spywares for linux? I don t know why, but my Firefox aways starts with the University of Arizona's home page.
     
    Pain of Salvation, Feb 25, 2006
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  2. BlueZannetti

    BlueZannetti Registered Member

    That would seem to be a very strange choice for spyware at first glance. What makes you say spyware? Are you unable to change the home page?

    Blue
     
    BlueZannetti, Feb 25, 2006
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  3. tansu

    tansu Registered Member

    Are you using Suse?
    Because, same thing happened to me with Opera and firefox both, I thought it was a DNS problem. have you ever visited University of Arizona's home page before?
     
    tansu, Feb 25, 2006
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  4. dog [away]

    dog [away] Guest

    Maybe they were the ones that compiled/packaged the RPM, if you didn't do it yourself?
     
    dog [away], Feb 26, 2006
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  5. Pain of Salvation

    Pain of Salvation Registered Member

    I wasnt able to change the home page, thats why I said "spyware"...

    I have never visited this page before...
    I think the problem was on the command... it was "firefox %U" (dont know exactly..), so I changed to just "firefox", and now its all ok.
     
    Pain of Salvation, Feb 26, 2006
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  6. TNT

    TNT Registered Member

    the command firefox <some url> makes Firefox start with that url as initial page. Maybe that's why.
     
    TNT, Feb 26, 2006
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