Web forgery per firefox...

Don't you wonder how many times the government has been hacked, and for national security reasons, it is kept from the public? The Internet is becoming a very unsafe media to expose yourself to. The same with electronic banking, credit card use and electronic sharing of any kind. About three months ago, I read an article by the CEO of Norton Security, and he suggested the internet will have to be replaced with another form of service, due to it's security risks. Nothing presently exists, but he felt it is doomed to beome a social media, only; and not one for confidential material. It might be better to spend the money on new systems rather than try and make our present ones totally secure.

 

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FWIW, I was getting it on both Firefox and Chrome on my desktop, but neither on my laptop. It disappeared immediately after I ran my malware program. Now I have no idea if it was coincidence or correlated.

 

What about Pay Pal? I use it......safe????

 

Sounds like malware to me. I just went through a bout with a nasty one. It hit all browsers and luckily only one machine.

 

PayPal's safe, if you don't mind some xxx overseas LYING that he never received the item he bought, and PayPal steals from your bank account to reimburse him.

It's happened to two major seller-friends of mine, fortunately never to me. But then I almost never post anything worth over $50, and usually more like $20, not worth a crook's time.

 

That was my thinking until I saw this thread. I am not a computer nerd, but I do not understand how Walmart can affect multiple computers at once and go away by itself - at least on most computers. That sounds like something on eBay's end.

 

Isn't there software (malware) that targets a specific file in your computer, copies and sends it back to its source, then an instant later, destroys itself, leaving no trace?

I seem to recall threats like this. And aren't there social media algorithms that also disappear instantly?

 

You are way over my head, but mine did not disappear in an instant. It was there for over 1 hour.

 

A quick check searching the web shows it was very wide spread and included macs. Not sure how reliable it is, but an administrator/moderator at Mozilla said it was due to a bunch of reports were made to Google and their site send out a block notice.