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

[Sebastian Rakowski <seb3255 () gmail com>]

Appears legit.

https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=292760454081612

-Sebastian

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Gage Bystrom <themadichib0d () gmail 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 () gmail 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 () gmail 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
> > >
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